Rather Quotes

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

It was always about the story rather than the character.

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I'm a rather decisive type.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.