Rather Quotes

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

Children need models rather than critics.

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person.

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.

I was rather a fat little boy.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late.

I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.