Being a geek is a great thing. I think we’re all geeks. Being a geek means you’re passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.
I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn’t happy.
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn’t require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.
I don’t like playing to guitar players, actually. I’d rather just play to ordinary people.
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.
I’d much rather play the psycho than the pretty girl in hot pants.
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I’d rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
You’re an island no matter what you do. I think it’s very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
I’d rather be a kid and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a woman’s heart.
As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to ‘the press’ rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
On privacy issues, it’s just like hundreds of years ago when people said, ‘I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.’ But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.
People seldom think of soup for summer, so they are unusual – an interesting, unusual touch for the first course or for dessert. I find cold soups very refreshing. I serve them in cups rather than in bowls, usually, and let people sip them. You don’t really need a spoon for soups that are all one consistency.
I’d rather be busy, working non-stop, than being bored at home, you know?
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
I’m proud that today, at 43 years old, I’ve come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom… Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
I’d rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I’d take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That’s not living.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
I don’t go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people’s approval.
I would love to be a coach, mentor, or a batting consultant. I would love to commentate in Hindi, as most people who watch the game are more comfortable with Hindi in India rather than English.
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it’s better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
I dislike the concept of ‘chic’ being the highest compliment for a human being. I’d rather someone be nice than to be chic.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I’m single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong’s rule of law.
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
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.’
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
I came back to Philips and quickly realised that the TV business had a major performance issue and some structural challenges. Rather than try to tweak it and sit things out, we said we had to go for a structural solution.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
The ‘punch’ of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law – an imaginative escape from palling reality – hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical ‘heroes.’
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
If we think we have ours and don’t owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
