Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Jonas Salk

As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.

Peter Singer

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.

Sara Sheridan

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.

Samuel Beckett

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Suzanne Collins

We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

Tariq Ramadan

What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship and in defence of more transparency, there is one respect in which they have now changed completely. Since the beginning of the 1920's, Islamism was very close in positioning in some respects to 'liberation theology'. But that is no longer the case.

Stephen Tobolowsky

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Talcott Parsons

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Thylias Moss

Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

Thurston Moore

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

Stephen Hawking

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

Richard Neal

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

Terry Eagleton

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

Walter Johnson

The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

Winston Churchill

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

William H. Seward

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.