#instead

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#developing #different #different directions #directions #each

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

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#endure #feet #hear #instead #jazz

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

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#could #i #instead #label #my own

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

— Ian Hunter

#i think #instead #more #nature #observers

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#day #errors #event #every #every day

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ↗

— Colin Henry Wilson

#instruments #parts #play #stage #stage play

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production. ↗

— Ryan Cabrera

#crazy #i #instead #production #songs