Rather Quotes
10955 quotes by 5999 authors
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The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing…
— Richard M. Nixon
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have…
— Walter Lippmann
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
— Eric Hoffer
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I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school.…
— Eugene Levy
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I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
— Unknown Author
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Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
— Diane Setterfield
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You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the…
— Kristian Bush
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You…
— Annie Lennox
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I have been studying now for about 2 years, on a rather intensive basis, the UFO problem. I have interviewed several hundred witnesses in selected…
— James MacDonald
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You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used…
— Richard Branson
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Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.
— Julie Delpy
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If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.
— Angelina Jolie
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Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.
— Mary Lou Retton
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I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.
— Mac Barnett
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I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which…
— Bobby Fischer
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Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go…
— Harry S. Truman
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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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