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Quotes About Option

Often, my liberal Canadian brethren will claim that 'Canada doesn't get involved in foreign affairs or wars overseas. We turn the other cheek.' No. Canada doesn't have the military might to exercise any option other than to remain uninvolved. They aren't turning the other cheek. They're pulling a Sweden.
~ Steven Crowder
Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.
~ Alex Gibney
If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.
~ Anthony Mackie
Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.
~ Matt Rees
Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
they would take the latter.
~ Suzanne Collins
He wanted to dismiss Saint Rosaline's comments out of hand, but this was impossible because he knew that the comments came from the recesses of this own mink. Either that, or he was truly going mad, which at this point seemed like an attractive option.
~ Suzanne Harper
I'm inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It's a close call.
~ Max Baucus
He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Seize any opportunity or anything that looks like opportunity.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The more uncertainty, the more valuable the option.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One of the attractive aspects of my profession as a quantitative option trader is that
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The fragile has no option. But the antifragile needs to select what's best—the best option.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Actions are symmetric, do not allow cherry-picking, remove the free option.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
thanks to the literature on cognition—that, counter to what everyone believes, not theorizing is an act—that theorizing can correspond to the absence of willed activity, the "default" option.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the alternative would have been inconceivable.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
because they want to make sure it is available if they decide they want to use it on a whim.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the first place smelled like work, so I took the second
~ Charles Bukowski
In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE
~ Tom Robbins
is never a struggle between good and evil, but between the preferable and the detestable.
~ Tony Judt
The long two-thousand-year record of Chinese history clearly shows that China is fundamentally unlike America as it is reluctant to use the military option first. It is also fundamentally different from America in another regard. It does not believe that it has a "universal" mission to promote Chinese civilization and encourage everyone else in humanity to emulate it.
~ Kishore Mahbubani
There's a small choice in rotten apples.
~ William Shakespeare
Suicide had never been an option; you took your own life, you couldn't get into the Fade
~ J.R. Ward
There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.
~ America Ferrera