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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

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. — Wayne W. Dyer

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

He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you. — Max Lucado

The best of us would rather be popular than right. — Mark Twain

You learn to always sell stocks quickly when you have a small loss rather than waiting and hoping they'll come back. — Anonymous

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

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

Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all. — Ada Leverson

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. — Margaret Atwood

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

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

It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's. — Sheila Kohler

So eager to die are you? (Zakar)
Not particularly, but I'd rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? — William Hague

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. — Samuel Richardson

Tasteful rather than expensive. — Cornelius Nepos

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

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

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 would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two. — Mary Sage Nguyen

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

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 could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy ... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times. — John Amos

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it. — Alicia Keys

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop. — Chris Martin

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

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

Let him love to find You while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find You. — Augustine Of Hippo

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — E. E. Cummings

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

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself. — Charles Handy

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

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. G. K. Chesterton — Leslie Parrott

They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies. — Kirk Jones

Max would rather say nothing to everyone than something to one person — Matthew Dicks

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design. — Thomas A. Stewart

Perhaps it's better to find joy in the rubble rather than celebrate in ignorance. — Catherine Jones Payne

If man sees hazard as a misfortune rather than an opportunity, he will seek to close the door to freedom rather than keep it open. — J.G. Bennett

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. — William Shakespeare

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong. — John Tukey

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept. — Randy Alcorn

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. — Billy Boyd

Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt. — Julian Baggini

But things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him. — Anthony Trollope

Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them? — Eckhart Tolle

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information. — Joseph Goebbels

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street. — Eugene V. Debs

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system. — Frances McCall Rosenbluth

The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances. — Lydia Brownback

love is a skill to be learnt, rather than just an emotion to be felt. It — The School Of Life

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vices are often habits rather than passions. — Antoine Rivarol

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

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

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

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

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

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 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