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I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. — Lady Gaga

Humans do worse things with money rather than for money. — M.F. Moonzajer

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers. — Pat Mitchell

I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land. — R.L. Bartram

She'd rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence. — J.M. Darhower

Always give response rather than reaction". — Vaibhav Soni

Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle. — Warren W. Wiersbe

The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it. — Saadi

The choices humans make should be active rather than passive. — Viktor E. Frankl

We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first. — Haruki Murakami

Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur Mellen Wellington

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. — Katharine Hepburn

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.' — Eve

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. — Herman Melville

I would rather have you suffering and alive-than dead. — Hanya Yanagihara

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all. — Phillip Phillips

Sometimes our greatest fears are not very far from us rather they are laying right next to us. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Red Riding Hood is not a fairy tale, but rather a universal story about courage and growing up — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car. — Scott Ian

Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner. — R. K. Milholland

I let you drag me here because there isn't a place in the world I would rather be than wherever you go. — F.E. Feeley Jr.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. — Kevyn Aucoin

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. — Amy Clampitt

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs. — Jon Foreman

I have come to see that exploration is not a practice of the unfaithful, but rather is exactly what being a follower of Christ is actually all about. — Brandan Roberston

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts ... — Dodie Smith

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life. — Edward T. Welch

We dont study philosophy, we rather do it. — William F. Lawhead

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion. — John W. Gardner

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful! — Daphne Oz

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up. — Shane Warne

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. — Ram Dass

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually. — George R R Martin

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things
rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn

The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians! — Eli Of Kittim

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog. — Dan Rather

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way — Bertrand Russell

Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die. — Behdad Sami

Vices are often habits rather than passions. — Antoine Rivarol

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness. — Martin Luther

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less. — Nathan W. Morris

You catch more flies with honey, ever heard of that?" He shrugged. "I don't like flies. They're annoying." He grinned "I'd rather catch hell. — Heather Hildenbrand

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag. — Abraham Lincoln

All geniuses are not successful just like all successful people are not geniuses. I would rather be successful than a genius. — Majid Kazmi

It's better to obey God rather than men. — Brother Andrew

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher

Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha) — Helen Fielding

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing. — Daniel Radcliffe

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. — Lucretia Mott

I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things. — Fergie

We seem historically to be more comfortable with others who are similar to us rather than different - same — John Oldham

Yeah, well, I try to think for myself once in a while, rather than buy in to the ridiculous propaganda the media would have us believe. — Marissa Meyer

It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fear not! I would rather tear the heart from your bosom than take your bow, for I believe you would miss it less. — Anne Fortier

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie. — Ken Gire

If only it was an island rather than a pretty sleeping dog with sand on its paws and cliffs on its shoulders, waiting to wake it up and tear it. — Kendare Blake

Work with Evangeline Black? I'd rather be slit open from navel to nose." -CORBIN BLUE
"Good thing I always carry a knife." -EVIE BLACK — Gena Showalter

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. — Augustus Hare

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Leaders make impacts. If your riches don't help you to make impacts, you aren't leading anyone; rather, money is leading you. — Israelmore Ayivor

Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out. — Henry J. Heinz

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls. — Bob Brown

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior. — Emmanuelle Beart

Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful for the time to prepare and learn to harness it. — Tom Althouse

The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of. — Philip Reeve

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. — A. B. Yehoshua

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful. — Martha Raye

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living. — Neale Donald Walsch

He's not the heart and flowers kind of guy, but he's the heart and soul kind, and fuck if every girl would rather that than flowers. — Jay McLean

I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire. — Jim Norton

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage. — Elbert Hubbard

My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film. — Ian McKellen

As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read. — Gail Carriger

I'd rather entertain people than offend them. — Sam Kinison

I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand. — Fred Durst

For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later. — Emmanuel Jal

I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe. Y — Michael Buble

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement. — E. O. Wilson

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect. — Sonam Kapoor

I think that what people who've committed crimes need isn't punishment, but rather the knowledge of the pain of being forgiven. — Inio Asano

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. — Sylvester Stallone

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time. — Amber Le Bon

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. — Moby

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice — Mortimer J. Adler

If there is one sin - or rather one waste - it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for. — Oliver

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. — Abraham Lincoln

I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder. — Ana Claudia Antunes

I couldn't speak, for once in my life. I was terrified of seeing him again; and I would rather have shaved my head than not see him again. — Charlaine Harris

Seek to complete rather than compete. — Linda K. Burton

I would rather walk alone in the light than with many in the dark doom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight. — Dodie Smith

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. — Honore De Balzac