Rather Quotes

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I'd rather make music than tour.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.