#rather

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#been #crisis #economic #economic crisis #financial

Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#assumed #believe #between #build #deteriorated

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#business #foolish #grandeur #guerrilla #had

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. ↗

— Cornelius Nepos

#hateful #life #loved #pitiable #power

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#assembly #automatic #away #basically #conflict

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#come #end #ever #fear #life

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. ↗

— Themistocles

#i #likely #man #money #preference

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#fear #i #intimacy #person #public

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#lazy #make #martyr #more #narrow