#otherwise

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#because #carry #citizens #criminals #decent

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#authorizing #consent #derive #exercised #federal

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#become #could #depressing #factory #i

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#because #diverted #innocence #lot #novels

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#arabia #autobiographical #bit #consideration #i

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#afford #american #american children #another #bureaucratic

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ↗

— Leslie Caron

#great #happy #how #know #order

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#decent #despise #even #generations #learned

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#easily #fall #frequently #good #good people

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point? ↗

— Courteney Cox

#friend #friends #i #lonely #otherwise