Alternatives Quotes

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing comedy again in alternative spaces.

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus.

When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because it's all pros and no cons, then I know I'm being conned.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation.

I hope you like Guiness, Sir. I find it a refreshing alternative to food.

Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?

As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

You want to do what you can while you are on this earth. Otherwise, the alternative is to go shopping.

If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow so many institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.

That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future

Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.