Rather Quotes

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.