You Rather Quotes

#1. Wouldn't you rather play chess, Ma'am? ... It's less destructive of clothes.

Rowena Cherry

#2. What would you rather?" yelled Sybil from the distant sandpit. "Know everything or know nothing?"
"Know nothing," I yelled back. "Then you have the fun of finding everything out.

Martin Amis

#3. I can't lie. This - me and you - scares the shit out of me."
I'd be worried if she weren't frightened. "Me too, but wouldn't you rather be scared together than
be miserable apart? Because I know that's what I'd be without you.

Georgia Cates

#4. Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

Homer

#5. Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

Billy Graham

#6. Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

Amy Hardie

#7. Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

Florynce Kennedy

#8. Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

Jenny Han

#9. If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

Gary Zukav

#10. To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings ... , In fact, I'm trying to think - what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think of another job that I'd rather do.

Billy Boyd

#11. When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

Dorothy Rowe

#12. You're upset, you're cold, and you're wet, wouldn't you rather discuss all this over a pot of hot tea?
Yes, but I wasn't going to say so.

Ransom Riggs

#13. Would you rather leave?"
"Absolutely not. I may be bloodied, but I can still carry a sword.

Lorraine Heath

#14. Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

George R R Martin

#15. Too much school."
"Would you rather be dead?! Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?!

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do

Ayn Rand

#17. SAYING AND CONCEALING For I would prefer to have these attacks and please you, rather than displease you and not have them. - Marcel Proust in a letter to his mother

Alice Miller

#18. What you end up experiencing is really a personal presentation of the world according to you, rather than the stark, unfiltered experience of what is really out there. This mental manipulation of the outer experience allows you to buffer reality as it comes in.

Michael Singer

#19. What I had learned from our encounter was invaluable. Never try to look like your character, leave some room for the director's imagination. Turn yourself into a blank canvas ready to be painted on. Give him the pleasure of discovering you rather than finding you.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

#20. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.

Rumi

#21. Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it's difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you'll be compromising your standards?

Frank Sonnenberg

#22. Would you rather die like a hero or live like a coward?

Kate Lord Brown

#23. When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?

Cormac McCarthy

#24. At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

Sebastian Vettel

#25. Friedrich kissed the top of her head. "Yes, before I fell in love with you," he said, sounding quite sheepish. "After that I grew quite stubborn about wanting to woo you rather than to buy your affections." "And

K.M. Shea

#26. Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.

Anodea Judith

#27. If you are divided from your body you are also divided from the body of the world, which then appears to be other than you or separate from you, rather than the living continuum to which you belong.

Philip Shepard

#28. If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

Jim Boeheim

#29. For a moment, looking felt like something that happened to you rather than something you did. Not 'Are you who I think you are?' Am I who you think I am?

Richard Powers

#30. Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?

Bikram Choudhury

#31. What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

Bill Burr

#32. Would you rather be great at something you like, or just okay at something you love?

Stephanie Perkins

#33. Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and destroying the planet?

Francine Prose

#34. I used to ask myself, 'Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?' and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.

Melika Dannese Lux

#35. There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Sheryl Sandberg

#36. You always do that, you know," Alec said.
I swallowed a gummy bear. "Do what?"
"Bite their heads off first."
I shrugged. "It's the nice thing to do. If you could choose, would you rather be eaten alive starting at your feet or would you want it to be over quickly?

Susanne Winnacker

#37. It's okay to be scared," Ambrose said solemnly." I know I am. As long as you let the fear drive you, rather than hold you down.

Abigail Roux

#38. Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden
an almond tree or an oil well?

Jean Giraudoux

#39. Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you.

Arthur C. Clarke

#40. Which would you rather be if you had the choice
divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

L.M. Montgomery

#41. Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?

Marv Levy

#42. You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

Christopher Paolini

#43. If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?"
"Walls can't think!"
"That doesn't stop them from caring.

Brandon Sanderson

#44. Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.

Mark Millar

#45. Never take the position that things just happen to you; rather, they happen because of something you did or did not do.

Grant Cardone

#46. In a badass, beer-glass brawl, would you rather have an academic liberal covering your back or a hobnailed redneck?

James Lee Burke

#47. Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Catie Curtis

#48. Money is a living entity, and it responds to energy exactly the same way you do. It is drawn to those who welcome it, those who respect it. Wouldn't you rather be with people who respect you and who don't want you to be something you're not? Your money feels the same way.

Suze Orman

#49. Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Thomas A Kempis

#50. I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society."
"Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Emmuska Orczy

#51. The most precious gift to give to your spouse is not your life because if you die,he/she will no longer have use of you rather the most precious gift is your time, attention, affection, self and love!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#52. Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

C. JoyBell C.

#53. The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?

Penelope Douglas

#54. Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?

Christopher Babson

#55. When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

Henry David Thoreau

#56. That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.

Kathryn Stockett

#57. Oh, come on. Wouldn't you rather go upstairs and lick your wounds? Maybe make an ice pack for your crotch?

Rachel Vincent

#58. Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.

Lang Leav

#59. Success in a competitive world requires hitting Monday refreshed and ready to go. The only way to do that is to create weekends that rejuvenate you rather than exhaust or disappoint you.

Laura Vanderkam

#60. You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.

Awdhesh Singh

#61. Trust God where you cannot see Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is God's; the promise is yours.

John Ross Macduff

#62. I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it's a choice: would you rather work at McDonald's or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald's over the sell side.

David Tepper

#63. Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Jay Samit

#64. Would you rather I played with you instead?

Nenia Campbell

#65. Ranger clicked his penlight on. "Hang onto me if you can't see."
I curled my hand into the back of his cargo pants just above his gun belt. "I'm good to go."
He was still for a beat. "You could have held on to my jacket," he said.
"Would you rather I do that?"
"No. Not even a little.

Janet Evanovich

#66. The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Zana Marjanovic

#67. Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience?

Todd Stocker

#68. Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

#69. Islam is not about "we're better than you". Rather it is about "let me show you something that is better for you

Nouman Ali Khan

#70. If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

Alison Weir

#71. After all, which would you rather do, pal, screw Bridget Bardot's brains out or read reviews of her movies?

M.T. Bass

#72. There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

Joe Posnanski

#73. It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.

Katie Holmes

#74. Would you rather be poor and sated, or rich and hungry? Prosperity is not only greedy, but it also lies exposed to the greed of others. And as long as nothing satisfies you, you yourself cannot satisfy others.

Seneca.

#75. Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

Robin S. Sharma

#76. If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

Warren Buffett

#77. You have a choice in life. Would you rather be lonely or miserable? I would rather be lonely. A lot of people are miserable in a marriage and they don't get along with their wife or husband and it's not worth it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#78. That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Judith Wright

#79. Would you rather I not be part of your life, Katie? Even suggesting it made him uneasy. What would he do if she said she wanted him gone? His heart had been set on Katie almost from the first moment they met.

Sarah M. Eden

#80. Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?

Terry Pratchett

#81. As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.

David Ignatius

#82. Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The

Thomas A. Harris

#83. The question you have to ask yourself is: Would you rather be happy and lose him or lose him and be miserable?

Amanda M. Lee

#84. It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

Eartha Kitt

#85. Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

John Waters

#86. [We're] told cars cause pollution. A 100 years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

P. J. O'Rourke

#87. The secret to successful homeschooling is faithfulness - consistency if you rather.

Pam Barnhill

#88. You need to hit Monday ready to go ... To do that, you need weekends that rejuvenate you, rather than exhaust or disappoint you. Cross-training makes you a better athlete, and likewise, exercise, volunteer work, and spiritual activities make you a better worker.

Laura Vanderkam

#89. Taking good care of yourself means the people in your life receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.

Lucille Zimmerman

#90. If you had to choose, and if you were not allowed to see either ahead of time and had no other information to go on, would you rather fight Mindcrow or Gonadulus?

David Wong

#91. Be who you are and what you are; for if you think of what others think of you, you will become what others think of you. Rather, be what you want to be!-RVM

R.v.m.

#92. About things you merely like? Would you rather learn how to plant a garden, work with friends to paint a house, or just have a great day with

Barbara Sher

#93. Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.

Neal Shusterman

#94. For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy
Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

Margaret Atwood

#95. Would you rather pay the extra charge or die?

Wesley Chu

#96. Would you rather learn to deal with the truth now than be forced to do so later on?

Celestine Chua

#97. 7. Dress appropriately for your work environment.

We get it; you want everyone to know how creative and interesting you are. Well, let your personality do that for you rather than your crop top and feather shoes.

Grace Helbig

#98. There's really only one question: would you rather have died? That's an easy one for me. I'd never rather that. Not under any circumstances. I'll take survival at any price. Always.

Karen Marie Moning

#99. Do you begrudge me that I am who I truly am? Should I pretend otherwise for the sake of pleasing you? If I did, it would be a lie. Would you rather love a lie than know me as I truly am?

Robin Hobb

#100. Would you rather be a slave in heaven or a free man in hell?

Wildbow