Rather Quotes

Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman.

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.