#rather

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn't going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american #american people #bureaucracies #comeback #creation

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#lust #mankind #possess #rather #seems

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital. ↗

— Mary Quant

#blond #fun #having #like #money

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#because #fake #i #intimate #investment

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#calling #comply #hands #hussein #immediately

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#colorful #drab #his #itself #life

We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#rather #resolved #see #successfully #would

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man. ↗

— Martin Niemoller

#god #man #must #obey #rather

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. ↗