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Quotes About Rather

A lot of food shows are people wanting to become celebrities, rather than encouraging people to cook.
~ Gino D'Acampo
I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
~ Taissa Farmiga
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
We should not ask, 'What is wrong with the world?' for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, "What has happened to salt and light?
~ John Stott
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
~ Andres Serrano
It is not whether certain values will be propagated by art, but rather which values will be propagated.
~ Douglas Wilson
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
~ William Shakespeare
You know, one of these days, I'm actually going to take offense if people keep throwing out these slurs. And then things are going to get rather ugly. When we Skandians do take offense, we do it with a battleax.
~ John Flanagan
I think caring as much as we do has been our greatest asset and really allowed us to build such a great company. It might not be conventional, but that's the way I'd rather live my life.
~ Scooter Braun
West of Chicago, You bet means Rather, and Yes indeed, and On the whole I should be inclined to fancy that there may be some vestiges of accuracy in your curious opinion, and You're a liar but I can't afford to say so.
~ Sinclair Lewis
They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.
~ Mark Twain
'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'
~ Rick Ross
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.
~ William Empson
He'd learned in recent days, though, that rather than drown in uncertainty it was best to surf right over the top of it.
~ Terry Pratchett
I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.
~ Eugene V. Debs
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
~ Norman Cousins
There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!
~ land edwin
"The Purple Cow" Reflections on a Mythic Beast, Who's quite Remarkable, at Least I never Saw a Purple Cow— I never Hope to See One; But I can tell you Anyhow I'd rather See than Be One.
~ Gelett Burgess, May 1895
CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
~ Conan O'Brien
I said I could not deny that this was a strong point. I said it (people often do so, in such cases) like a rather reluctant concession to truth and justice; - as if I wanted to deny it!
~ Charles Dickens
If this practice is a safety-valve, comrade, well and good; but I don't altogether like your being so bent upon it in your present state of mind; I'd rather you took to something else.
~ Charles Dickens
What I would rather see, what I think would be the best outcome, is a very close relationship between the United Kingdom and the E.U.
~ Leo Varadkar
As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of the kind. Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford
~ Jane Austen
I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.
~ Unknown