Alternatives Quotes - Page 8

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

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity to live more lightly upon the Earth while experiencing a higher quality of life?

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

I've always feel like it's been my place to offer an alternative.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

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

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is

... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

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

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

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.

Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.