Rather Quotes · Page 31

I loathe nowheres - airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift,…

— Monty Don

I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless…

— Anna Maxwell Martin

I'd rather say that had the going not been tough, perhaps it wouldn't have been as enjoyable.

— Rithvik Dhanjani

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

— Sally Rooney

What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

— Kevin Mitnick

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

— Jacob K. Javits

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Prosperity has nothing to do with the quantity of money that we have in our pockets, but rather with the quantity of…

— Maxime Bernier

Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe…

— David Blunkett

All I've got to say is if I'm a sellout, I'm selling out arenas all over the world, and I'd rather be…

— Taboo

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I myself don't have Netflix. And recently, I was staying at a friend's place who did, and I was feeling rather poorly…

— Aden Young

I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was…

— Laura Wade

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their…

— Ronald Frame

I am not a very social person and have a few friends who have been with me since school and college. I…

— Sonakshi Sinha

They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have…

— Joe Scarborough

Don't complain of the soil in which you were born, but rather of the plant you are living with.

— Vikrant Parsai

I actually cannot stand a room without a view - I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with…

— Amy Landecker

My instruction to my parents is that I would rather they enjoy their retirement than leave me anything when they go. I…

— Richard Armitage

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of…

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

I'm planning to have a career based on my acting skills rather than the size of my chest.

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

All lives matter, including black lives, which is a value we should be striving for rather than condemning.

— Katie Pavlich

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I'd rather just try and focus on what I'm doing, try…

— Lando Norris

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

— Felicity Kendal

I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying…

— Bob Casey, Jr

Everyone is different, and I would rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I am not.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

— Ian Mckellen

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

— Richard Lamm

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me…

— Edward Albee

The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the…

— Steve Pearce

I'd rather run good and finish bad then run bad and finish a little better, honestly.

— Denny Hamlin

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

— John Updike

I'd rather sell groundnuts in my village than to play for a pathetic team like Chelsea.

— Samuel Eto'o

A lot of food shows are people wanting to become celebrities, rather than encouraging people to cook.

— Gino D'Acampo

I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a…

— Daniel Boulud

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

— Hermann Goering

I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids.

— Katherine Parkinson

There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone…

— Eileen Atkins

As I have often said, I would rather be lucky than smart! But it is even better to be lucky and super…

— Dan Pena

If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for…

— James McAvoy