Alternatives Quotes

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and 90s music to Dave Matthews.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone who had read them knows that.

I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of government except all the alternatives.

Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.

I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

I do believe that, in time, doctors - both alternative and orthodox - will begin using whatever is the highest best treatment for their patients, regardless of the modality.

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other.

There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally.

You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.

Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

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 actions.

Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. #‎ RIP6MIX

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels.

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.