#rather

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#between #canals #channeled #deal #drown

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#down #good #good picture #i #much

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#films #i #make #ones #rather

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#complicated #easy #ever #i #i love

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#dan rather #especially #i #just #rather

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#even #everything #exhausted #fanatic #fiction

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#ask #cause #i #know #me

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought. ↗

— Louise Fletcher

#been #go #gone #guts #had

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be. ↗

— Gallagher

#draw #friends #kids #line #parents