Alternatives Quotes

That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

If there's anything I can do, it's to present an alternative vision for the country.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

The alternative to discipline is disaster

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over. At the same time, we have to be prepared.

Cigars are no safe alternative act.

The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

More or less Europe - that's the wrong alternative! What we need is less centralism.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.