We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that...

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

I’ve got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An...

Doing these parts is not fun. It’s challenging, but no fun. It’s creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

There’s no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world....

I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was...

I’m trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I’m not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

When I started working on ‘Battlestar Galactica’ in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with...

I know I’m not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I’d rather be. So, yeah, that’s how I’d define myself. I want to do...

I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal’s rotting carcass.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven’t captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families – the Conrans and the Ashleys – who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn’t an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be...

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.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don’t know.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees...

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they’ve gathered.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can’t actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.

I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You’d swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many...

I’d rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that’s not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have...

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Physics tells us observations can’t be predicted absolutely. Rather, there’s a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to...

I always felt like if you get to a point where you’ve got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that’s related to a natural resource because that’s gonna be...

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it’s up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

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.

I’d rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I’m nuts and I’m crazy for my musical choices and what I’ve said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the...

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I’m getting some credit for what I’ve done. Which is gratifying, but it’s kind of a little late.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I’d rather have actual people be there. Whether they...

I’d rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I’m just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

Sometimes people fear the truth. They’d rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

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.