Alternative Quotes
736 quotes by 620 authors
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The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything
— Cassandra Clare
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No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at…
— Janice Galloway
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I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
— David Levithan
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I sat there for several moments, trying to decide how best I should respond. None of the advice I'd gotten from the books or my…
— Richelle Mead
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Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not…
— Jeanette Winterson
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[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.
— Ann Aguirre
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Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless…
— Anne Bronte
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There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters…
— Peter Watts
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...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers
— Harlan Coben
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I was afraid I was wrong, that you would change your mind any second. I’ve been looking for a suitable alternative, but the truth is…
— Kiera Cass
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People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression.…
— Marian Keyes
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Anger - a better alternative to caffeine.
— Ilona Andrews
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No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our…
— Tammara Webber
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There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
— John Lennon
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The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind…
— John Schaar
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From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There…
— Paul Robeson
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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned…
— Jesse Jackson
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