#instead

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#citizen #even #higher #hold #i

We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#ask #deployed #dialogue #door #give

I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance instead of their husband or wife. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#day #fiance #heard #husband #i

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#building #clock #come #communism #concrete

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#i #instead #set #talk #tv

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#amen #humbly #instead #kept #know

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#being #capital #companies #incorporated #indispensable

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#better #friends #instead #little #loving

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. ↗

— Ian Hunter

#i think #instead #more #nature #observers