Rather Quotes

10955 Rather quotes by 5999 unique authors

It's never been easy. But I've always wanted to play hockey. I love hockey. I'd rather play hockey than do anything else. If you have… — Unknown Author
My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial… — Jamie Lee Curtis
..leaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make… — Unknown Author
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form… — Judith Wright
It is very important that we look at what we CAN do, rather than what is impossible to do. — Hazel Hawke
I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action. — Hazel Hawke
Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you. — William DeWitt Hyde
It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last… — Geronimo
If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what… — Richard M. Nixon
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. — Jill Dando
One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. — Margaret Fuller
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to… — Audre Lorde
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on… — Peter Singer
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. — D. H. Lawrence
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that… — Noam Chomsky
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that… — Dalai Lama
We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. — Hermann Goring
I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag. — Steven Morrissey
I'd rather produce art than become art. — Steven Morrissey
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. — Unknown Author
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The… — Leonard Michaels
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Rather Quotes

5,999 authors contributed a total of 10,955 Rather Quotes, led by these top contributors: