Rather Quotes

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.

I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

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.