Quotes About Alternatives

No matter what situation you're in, you always have a choice.

You can put it another way, of course; you always can.

every relationship contains within it the ghosts, or the shadows, of all the other relationships it isn't. All the abandoned alternatives, the forgotten choices, the lives you could have led but didn't and haven't.

In any situation the right solution isn't the only one.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

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.

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice.

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?

Many persons have of late left off the use of West-India sugar on account of the iniquitous manner in which it is obtained. Those families who have done so, and have not substituted any thing else in its place, have not only cleansed their hands of blood, but have made a saving to their families, some of six pence, and some of a shilling a week. If this, or a part of this were appropriated to the uses before-mentioned, it would abundantly suffice

On ne sait jamais que manger ; faire un choix, c'es anéantir tous les autres.

Insofar as Americans have a popular image of postal workers, it has become increasingly squalid. But this didn't just happen. It is the result of intentional policy choices. Since the 1980s, legislators have led the way in systematically defunding the post office and encouraging private alternatives as part of an ongoing campaign to convince Americans that government doesn't really work.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

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

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

There are no have-to's, just choices

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

Am I bad?" He puffed angrily on his pipe. "Why does the law create such absurdities?" He snorted. "The law. The law is an ass. Someone famous said that, once. Dickens, I think." He looked up to Goodrich. "And it is. It doesn't respond anymore. It's a straitjacket. What kind of coercion is it when your alternatives are to kill or to go to jail?

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500 000 to 600 000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

The more you can see options, the quicker you can regain a sense of control.

You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.