Rather Quotes

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.

And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.