I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That’s just my nature.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist...

When I come home from a shoot, I’d rather reheat food I’ve made than eat takeout.

Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they’re thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you’re totally unbiased and objective.

I’d rather be David Ladd’s father than Alan Ladd any day.

Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That’s a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams...

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of...

Don’t let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I would rather do movies because I’m very lazy and the hours are much easier.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

It’s quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, ‘Oh, that’s really...

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we’ve been educated to think that the artist...

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly ‘parallel’ plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don’t tell.

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get...

Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

There is no community service in ‘Seinfeld.’ But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring...

When not working, I use a lot of treatments; from ancient casero – honey, avocado, stuff like that – other times, I buy ones you leave on for a few minutes. I don’t blow dry...

I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I’d rather pull out my own eyelids.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument – can you make a difference?

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

For years, I’ve felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don’t play basketball, I can’t dance, and I’d rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it’s more interesting to have an album – or, indeed, an individual song – which has variety rather than homogeneity.

I’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things. I can...

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it’s slightly fictional.

I’d much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I’d much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply...

If you ask me what I’d rather be doing, well, I’d rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

I’d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing...

I’d rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

My instruction to my parents is that I would rather they enjoy their retirement than leave me anything when they go. I am much happier watching them enjoying life.