Quotes of: Rather Keyword

I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.

Robert Redford

This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?

R.D. Ronald

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

Raymond Smullyan

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

I prefer to have one gigantic laugh preceded by several smaller laughs rather than a bunch of medium laughs all along.

Ron Shock

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

Robert Teeter

Be who you are and what you are; for if you think of what others think of you, you will become what others think of you. Rather, be what you want to be!-RVM

Rvm

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

Saint Teresa of Avila

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

Sherman Alexie

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Samuel Adams

If a man talks like a woman, what is there to believe about this man? I'd rather listen to the woman who thinks and talks like a man.

Sofia Ann

Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free.

Shannon L. Alder

I rather have a pastor that committed every horrible sin and repented, than a pastor that has no place of reference to preach redemption to a packed chapel full of sinners.

Shannon L. Alder

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Seymour Cray

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.

M. Scott Peck

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

Michael Redhill

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

Michael Ritchie

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

Marian Seldes

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

Mark Strand

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

Michael Shermer