Rather Quotes
10955 quotes by 5999 authors
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If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
— John F. Kennedy
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The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax…
— John F. Kennedy
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
— Harold Pinter
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Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
— Sol LeWitt
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I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for…
— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism,…
— Hugo Chavez
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Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.
— Wallace Stevens
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I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I…
— Charles Bukowski
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Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow,…
— Miranda Kerr
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The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good…
— Thom Yorke
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Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes…
— David Mamet
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can…
— Willem de Kooning
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Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
— Kurt Cobain
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We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the…
— Kurt Cobain
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect,…
— PJ Harvey
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Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into…
— Condoleezza Rice
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