#rather

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#cool #country #declining #direction #dorky

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs. ↗

— Gotye

#bunch #give #gives #greater #hope

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#aspire #hero #merely #rather #than

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#actions #affinities #among #architecture #arts

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood. ↗

— John Gray

#concerned #expressing #finding #her #herself

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#excel #excellent #extent #i #knowledge

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#escape #know #made #man #me

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#completely #floor #fun #i #love

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#any #ask #because #energy #invent

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days. ↗

— Jane Grey

#been #days #death #god #hasten