The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. Does that make sense?
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
It's everyone's responsibility to build up other women rather than tear them down. Be self-aware and proactive. It's not wrong to have those thoughts, but you can change how you respond to those feelings. Take a mental step back, and think about why you're feeling that way.
If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from his lifetime to this year of his bicentennial. Some advice: Don't try that unless you have at least five years available.
I'd rather work than not.
The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.
Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen.
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
European Muslims need to feel ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army.
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.
If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.
At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.
For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.
Rather than making minor repairs to a few small leaks in the roof, the Architect of the Capitol is proposing to tear down the entire roof and replace it with something called a new vegetative roofing system. We shouldn't be wasting precious taxpayer money on a new, state-of-the-art vegetative roofing system.
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
The Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and Pistons are there today as sure as they were when what was good for General Motors was good for the country. Would you rather have a basketball team, or would you rather be Detroit?
