I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan of Arc

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

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere.
Louis Farrakhan

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
Calvin Klein

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.
Brian Clough

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
Davy Crockett

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Davy Crockett

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
Fran Lebowitz

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan Quayle

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Neil Armstrong

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone De Beauvoir