Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eoin Colfer

There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony

George Soros

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

George H. W. Bush

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Jerry Cantrell

There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.

Jaime Lerner

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

Kurt Cobain

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

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.

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.

Joe Garagiola

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

John Green

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

Lindsey Graham

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Meg Rosoff

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

Margaret Thatcher

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

Marshall McLuhan

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

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.

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.