Alternatives Quotes
872 Alternatives quotes by 712 unique authors
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You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.
— Tim Minchin
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Life is full of alternatives but no choice.
— Patrick White
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I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does…
— Jonathan Lethem
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I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a…
— Suzanne Collins
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If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a…
— Sheena Iyengar
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The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
— Winston Churchill
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There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them,…
— Eoin Colfer
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Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
— Winston Churchill
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I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you…
— Pema Chodron
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We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
— Suzanne Collins
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Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself…
— Julie Orringer
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This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.
— Meg Rosoff
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Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.
— J R Ward
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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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Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief…
— Stephenie Meyer
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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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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first…
— C. Wright Mills
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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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Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise…
— Isabel Allende
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And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
— Neal Stephenson
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