Quotes About Alternative

I'd been pleased to find there was an alternative to the other stuff, which all reminded me of advertisements containing people with perfect teeth, heroic expressions and offspring that looked like they were on their way to Hitler youth rallies.

Ravelle, anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves. We do it because the sole alternative is to die cringing.

anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves. We do it because the sole alternative is to die cringing.

This isn't D.C., Murrary, this is Ann Arbor, Michigan. This is a long-haired, pot-smoking little college town.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

My opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

I'm sick of Soup Of The Day, man. It's time we make a decision. I need to know what Soup From Now On is.

El resentimiento, para Nietzsche, es la emoción de envidia que sienten los impotentes ante los poderosos, pero es una emoción que suscita una especial creatividad, pues empuja a quienes no tienen poder a inventar un universo alternativo en el que ellos son los poderosos y sus competidores son patéticos.

Siempre hay que buscar una posible alternativa y estar preparado para ella.

That left only one possibility:

The alternative was to do nothing.

Sometimes, of course, the difference between one option and another isn't especially significant.

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

They had counted on his pity and dreaded his anger; they had not dared consider the third alternative: his indifference.

Life.... It's better than the alternative.

Whenever you are given two choices, look out for the third option.

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

If you cannot fix it," he says, "maybe you have to look at it differently.

Present choice cannot at present choose to be otherwise: for that would be at present to choose something diverse from what is at present chosen.

a reason why not. And—and, let's pretend

Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.