Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Drucker

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

Michael Caine

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Mary Karr

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

Martie Maguire

I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.

Michael Ondaatje

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

Samuel Butler

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence

I'm just glad to see a conclusion to it, ... It's been traumatic for the school and the school system. It is a sad day. Some lives were altered because of this. I'm just glad it's over and we can move on.

Ted Koppel

The challenge over the years, and the challenge now, is to keep changing the program without altering it,

Lauryn Hill

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

The IAEA meeting is paramount on investors' minds, because it has the potential to alter the demand supply equilibrium.

The IAEA meeting is paramount in investors' minds, because it has the potential to alter the demand-supply equilibrium.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

John Schuerholz

The greatest analogy of what we did was we altered our roster in midstream, which was like changing the tires on a bus going 60 miles an hour down.

The increase in unemployment and the lack of job creation has dramatically altered the beneficial dynamic that prevailed in the latter half of the 1990s, when tight labor markets and faster productivity growth fueled broad-based wage gains.

Sunil Gavaskar

The Indian selectors could do well to follow the West Indian policy and alternate tournaments for Javagal Srinath. This way he will be able to keep in touch with international cricket and also keep his zest and energy for Test cricket.

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Alternate heating sources seems to be a hot item this year.

Manfred Eigen

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

James Frey

All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

The economy will continue this gradual recovery led by private domestic demand. Any changes in economic policy brought on by the election probably won't alter that scenario.

The downside surprise on economic growth was not large enough to alter the outlook significantly.

Pankaj Mishra

The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Arlen Specter

You can't have the administration and a select number of members alter the law.

Shane Black

You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.

Bob Uecker

You get a little wood carving knife in case you want to alter them,

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Phyllis Bottome

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Pieter Zeeman

Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?

The key here is probably, and that's where we're hoping the judge will rule in our favor, alteration does not mean replacement of the design.

The key here is capturing reality and not creating or altering reality.

Debbie Reynolds

The UK's disease-free status for avian flu is not altered here. We've got an avian flu in quarantine. All of the birds that come in from outside of the European Union come into quarantine and we picked up the avian flu virus in the UK quarantine system.