#than

Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish? ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#life #rather #than #thinking #try

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#fail #fortune #good #good fortune #happiness

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#been #man #never #own #saying

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#better #burst #good #liquor #lost

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#friends #good #hurt #more #ten

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was. ↗

— Amy Tan

#everything #i #makes #maybe #memory

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. ↗

— Amy Tan

#always #been #brother #deaths #failure

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#avenue #direct #ever #expression #i

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#citizens #depreciate #future #just #more

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#been #else #experimental #few #here