Rather Quotes

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

I’d rather die believing than live doubting

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.

I’d rather be by myself than be spending any time or energy on somebody that I didn’t feel sure about.

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.