Alternatives Quotes

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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers… — Richard P. Feynman
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
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light… — Terry Tempest Williams
...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative... — Yevgeny Zamyatin
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Mel Brooks
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
Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for… — Tsitsi Dangarembga
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility… — Bertrand Russell
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
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. — Jorge Luis Borges
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone… — Anthony Bourdain
Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything… — Ron Currie Jr.
Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are… — Dean Koontz
When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom.… — Terry Pratchett

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