I Quotes
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“I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question.”
“I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question. Whenever you are talking about these issues, it's not a question of restricting rights. It's a question of restricting whose rights, and providing for whose rights and that's a tricky balance.”
“I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.”
“I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.”
“I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.”
“I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.”
“I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.”
“I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.”
Source: The Holy Spirit, or, Power from on high
“I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood."”
“I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.”
“I would rather prefer wasting the time in planning my work over losing the time in working my plan”
“I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.”
Source: Complete Essays
“I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.”
“I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.”
“I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.”
“I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.”
“I would rather quit while I was ahead. There’s no need in overstaying your welcome.”
“I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.”
“I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.”
Source: The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog
“I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.”
“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.”
“I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.”
“I would rather remember even if sometimes it can be very painful.”
“I would rather risk failure than achieve it without risk.”
“I would rather rudder”
“I would rather sail and hit a rock
than sit and rot in dry dock.”
“I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or Asia, I find myself disoriented. I'm not so inspired by their culture as much. It's not going to really come out in my work. I would be more influenced by what somebody from America does - like a sign painter from Pennsylvania.”
“I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.”
“I would rather see him succeed than be with him and make him feel defeated.”
“I would rather see him than all the towers and palaces in the world.”
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
“I would rather share one lifetime with you thanface all the ages of this world alone - Arwen”
Source: The Lord of the Rings 3 Volumes
“I would rather shovel manure with friends than serve chocolate with enemies.”
Source: Hero, Vol. 3: A Self-Improvement Workbook Series—H.A.L.T.: An Emotional Management Field Guide
“I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.”
“I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach.”
“I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in the daytime than listen to people tell my why I want to have children and that I just don't know it yet. I do know, because I'm me and my feelings are the ones in my head. I don't want to have kids, and it's not a device to get attention or have conversations about it. I simply find children incredibly immature and, more often than not, dumb.”
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
“I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.”
Source: The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke
“I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.”
“I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.”
Source: Life and letters
“I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.”
“I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.”
“I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.”
“I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.”
“I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.”
“I would rather stand on the embers of the world I burned to the ground, than stand in the shadows of another man.”
“I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.”
“I would rather start a family than finish one.”
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
“I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!”
Source: Life in the Word Journal