Alternative Quotes

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I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a… — Jeanette Winterson
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code… — Ayn Rand
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. — Samuel Beckett
I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society â€” because once you marry within a… — Bell Hooks
Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities. — Tom Hodgkinson
I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient… — Sara Gruen
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see… — Jane Austen
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student… — Rebecca Solnit
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree. — Hunter S. Thompson
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain… — Jean Baudrillard
Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic… — Jim Wallis
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them… — Peter S. Beagle
...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative... — Yevgeny Zamyatin
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains,… — Richard Dawkins
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out… — Edward de Bono
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. — Doris Lessing
Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not… — Meg Cabot
All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of… — Jim Butcher
Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and… — Jodi Picoult

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