Alternatives Quotes

• 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.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspiring, Success, Failure

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

  Daniel Dennett

  Answers, Economics, Chains

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• Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Wise, Intelligent

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• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  Abba Eban

  Funny, Sarcastic, War

  Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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• Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Black And White, Color

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

  Linford Christie

  Motivational, Athlete, Trying

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• A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

  Manfred Eigen

  Math, Science, Technology

  The Physicist's Conception of Nature edited by Jagdish Mehra (p. 618)

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• If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

  Rick Renzi

  Moving, Oil, America

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• The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Wall, Destiny, Years

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• The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

  Jerry Garcia

  Media, Important, Video

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• First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Government, Leader

  "Harper appears open to working with Bloc in 2004 CBC interview". Interview with Evan Solomon, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 5, 2008.

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• Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

  Ann Oakley

  Fitness, Mother, Humorous

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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

  Jim Woodring

  Book, Hands, Stuff

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• 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.

  Lois Capps

  Years, Energy, Efficiency

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• Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

  John Gresham Machen

  Biblical, Criticism, Conservative

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• We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

  Bobby Jindal

  Development, Fuel, Soybeans

  "America’S 25 Issues to Fix and Make the United States Great, Again!". Book by Peter D. Fleming, January 15, 2010.

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• Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

  Anita Diament

  Beautiful, Smart, Writing

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• Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

  Jalal Talabani

  Military, Currents, Threat

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• Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

  Kiana Tom

  Hard Work, Cutting, Careers

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• Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

  Christopher Lasch

  Ruins, Improvement, Arise

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• Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Interesting, Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol

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• Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

  Thurston Moore

  Culture, Mainstream, Should

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• 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.

  Lois Capps

  Creativity, Use, Energy

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