Rather Quotes

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

I would rather stop too soon than too late.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.