Rather Quotes

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

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.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.