#rather

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#am #century #come #glad #horrors

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#background #bin #business #comes #company

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#dime #doing #go #i #rather

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#accounts #after #asset #capital #corporation

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#i #myself #pictures #rather #realm

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#demons #destroy #either #freddie #game

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#going #i #killed #our #rather

I would rather make my name than inherit it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#inherit #make #name #rather #than

I'd rather be lucky than good. ↗

— Lefty Gomez

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