Alternatives Quotes
The best sayings about Alternatives that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
-
There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We don't need to make another Dances With Wolves, because it's not an Indian movie. When Indians portray themselves, then we have a different perspective. I've been asked about making period pieces but I've never read one that wasn't about guilt, and I'm not trying to make a guilt film.
→ -
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.
→ -
The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.
→ -
I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.
→ -
I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
→ -
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
→ -
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
→ -
As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.
→ -
We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
→ -
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
→ -
The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.
→ -
Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.
→ -
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.
→ -
I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
→ -
One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.
→ -
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
→ -
There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is only one libertarian position on immigration, and that position is open immigration or open borders.
→ -
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.
→ -
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
→ -
Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.
→ -
You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.
→ -
Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.
→ -
If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be also so quantified, then some computational method may be evolved for choosing the best schedule of actions among alternatives. Such use of mathematical models is termed mathematical programming.
→ -
. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored.
→ -
I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.
→ -
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
→ -
I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion.
→ -
If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at the grassroots level, but they are always under threat. The problem in North Africa and the Middle East is the politics of oil. It means that the spaces for truly grassroots politics, involving those masses of people excluded from high politics, are very quickly closed down. They are not really allowed any kind of autonomy to develop, and that seems to be the real problem, which gets us back to the neo-colonial relationship.
→ -
But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.
→ -
In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative.
→
Top Authors
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Edward James Olmos Actor -
Eleanor Antin Artist -
Edgar Steele Attorney -
Einar Skjaeraasen Author -
Earl Wilson Baseball player -
Dwyane Wade Basketball player -
Eckhard Pfeiffer Businessman -
Eicca Toppinen Cellist -
Ed Byrne Comedian -
Edwin Catmull Computer Scientist -
Eduard Bernstein German Politician -
Eben Moglen Law professor -
Earl Mac Rauch Novelist
-
Edgar Fawcett Novelist -
Edouard Bourdet Playwright -
Edmund Gosse Poet -
Eino Leino Poet -
Elie Wiesel Professor -
Edie Brickell Singer-songwriter -
Elbridge Bryant Tenor -
E. C. Myers Writer
-
E. Lockhart Writer -
Eileen Wilks Writer
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Alternatives!