Rather Quotes

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

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

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

A new 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.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.