#rather

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things. ↗

— Brendan Fehr

#big #dad #doing #few #few things

What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits. ↗

— David Cameron

#better #better off #effect #everyone #forward

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game. ↗

— Bob Feller

#game #hit #i #pitch #rather

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#history #i #lived #never #now

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#angry #course #critics #detest #feel

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me. ↗

— Charles Keating

#complicated #computers #did #extraordinarily #frighten

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#balance #been #between #blessings #camp

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#around #come #decided #find #hard

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#arriving #attendance #began #being #classes

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#dealt #disturbed #epoch #ever #historical