#otherwise

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#best #had #i #knew #know

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise? ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#get #knows #lot #money #otherwise

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beauty #been #between #discriminate #discussions

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#lost #otherwise #pleasures #sharpens #small

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex? ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#begin #complex #could #his #how

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#after #any #believe #campaigning #candidates

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#because #enough #get #i #mostly

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#bring #civil #civil war #created #dilemma

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might. ↗

— Merle Shain

#friends #into #less #like #might

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. ↗

— Adam Smith

#augmenting #banking #capital #country #greater