Quotes of: Rather Keyword

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Peter Stuyvesant

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Ilya Ehrenburg

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

Robert Runcie

In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

Dean Ornish

I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good.

Hugh Grant

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

John Steinbeck

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Mary Archer

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

Michael Biehn

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Peter De Vries

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Robert H. Schuller

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Sophia Bush

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

Siouxsie Sioux

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Noam Chomsky

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

Jeff Dunham

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

Felicity Kendal

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

Graham Greene

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

Joan of Arc

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

Karl G. Maeser

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Mark Pagel