#rather

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. ↗

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#compliment #compliments #love #mean #men

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#go #had #having #husband #loss

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#back #basket #carry #come #dogs

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#being funny #funny #i #interesting #known

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas? ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#dearth #derivative #done #had #ideas

I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#feel #i #i feel #late #leave

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#dreams #like #out #rather #see

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#give #give me #love #me #money

I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart. ↗