Rather Quotes

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.