Top 274 Alternate Quotes & Sayings

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.

Imagination is very important to having vision and trying to find things that are different, alternate ways.

Is there an alternate role for the U.K. outside the E.U? I think absolutely there is. It shouldn't be something we should be worried about.

Compassion is an alternate perception

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

I can't control who makes the team or not. I'm just happy to be an alternate.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Fan fictions are an alternate universe.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

Let exercise alternate with rest.

I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into pessimism, but that, in fact, the novel as it has developed should, if it's functioning correctly, have equipped you as the reader to make your own decision about where you want to go with that, about where you're going to fall on that continuum. So, the novel is taking you directly up to the point that you have to choose, and it's letting you do that.

There are alternate explanations for everything.

With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

When you don't have money for marketing, you explore alternate ways.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public's confidence in alternate political leaders.

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

Being an alternate is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do in gymnastics.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine - not Russia - attacked us in 2016.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental.

If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people.

To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.

My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.

I would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to.

Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track.

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

I attend dance class every alternate day, and it works like a cardio workout for me. I also do weight training in the gym every alternate day.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.