Alternatives Quotes

872 Alternatives quotes by 712 unique authors

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding… — Walker Percy
Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones. — Joel Greenblatt
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him. — Timothy Keller
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. — Allan Bloom
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in… — Allan Bloom
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. — Saul Bellow
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he… — Margaret Mead
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life. — Billy Graham
All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information. — Robert Breault
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. — Charles Wheelan
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it… — Henry Rollins
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. — Jacques Barzun
Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to… — Andy Warhol
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan
Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of… — Sun Tzu
Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't… — Tim Daly
Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as… — Ron Wyden
I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing… — Jon Lord
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated… — Paul Nurse
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I… — Richard Neal
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed… — Richard Neal
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. — Richard Neal
The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but… — Bob Odenkirk

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