Alternative Quotes

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. (Maurice Chevalier)
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. View quote
Erich Fromm
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. View quote
Tom Brokaw
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. View quote
Golda Meir
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
Where does the family start It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. View quote
Winston Churchill
The more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money. View quote
Jonathan Ive
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed. View quote
Bruno Latour
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. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. (Penelope Lively)
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. View quote
Tom Perrotta
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative. View quote
Dale T. Mortensen
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. View quote
Christopher Lasch
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way. View quote
David Carradine
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. View quote
Gavin Newsom
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality. View quote
Henry Reed
What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity. View quote
Lois Capps
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. View quote
Laurence Housman
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax. View quote
Richard Neal
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not. (Ron Kind)
Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy. View quote
Virgil Goode
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
There is no alternative to class struggle. View quote
Vyacheslav Molotov
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat