Rather Quotes

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.