Top 481 Alternatives Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America - not as a matter of nostalgia for the agrarian past but as a matter of national security. For nations that lose the ability to substantially feed themselves will find themselves as gravely compromised in their international dealings as nations that depend on foreign sources of oil presently do. But while there are alternatives to oil, there are no alternatives to food.
So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that? We do it by trying to produce products and services that our customers will value more than their alternatives, and not just their alternatives today, but what the alternatives will be in the future. We try to more efficiently use resources than our competitors, and constantly improve in that, and we try to do the best job we can in creating a safe environment, and environmental excellence, and constantly improve at that.
You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives. — © Stephen Tobolowsky
You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.
We have so many alternatives, like kenaf. It produces more crop, it's hardier, and creates incredible paper products. Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm inviting anyone else who thinks the same to reach out and get involved with our think tanks around creating tree free alternatives ASAP.
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child.
Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates. More than that, we pay too much for health care, it's not good enough, and the system is too complex. We need alternatives.
Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.
Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.
I find that people look to personalize their fashion alternatives.
A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good. — © Chuck Feeney
A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.
When you go back to the above names it was a very much narrower situation - the alternatives were far fewer. Today there is much more competition for the 'hero stakes'! And if you think about all the alternatives you have today to spend your time on, the pool of heroes is much broader. It was very much less back then.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.
As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.
Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.
Democracy's got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it's certain the alternatives are not better.
We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.
There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.
You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the other alternatives are going up.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what were the alternatives? There was actually a proposal by Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist who was in Spain at the time, which is not a crazy notion in my opinion. He opposed participation in government and was against the formation of an army, meaning a major army to fight [Francisco] Franco.
Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.
If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives.
There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.
A failure to learn about Satan's plan for man here on earth would be fatal to the full exercise of free agency. The reason for this lies in the fact that . . . free agency is the opportunity to choose between good and evil. To intelligently make such a choice one must understand the alternatives-both of them. To the extent one is ignorant of these alternatives, to that same extent he has not made a complete choice. Until a person understands Satan's plan, he can never be certain he does not believe in it and is not helping to carry it out.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different. — © Glenn Hoddle
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.
There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.
From God, I have the strength and intelligence to have alternatives and can live even without football.
The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.
Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.
Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.
What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and then consider the alternatives, those alternatives probably wouldn't be as successful at getting its genes around.
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.
I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default. — © James Forman, Jr.
We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.
When democracies don't deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive.
In South America, there is no more room for alternatives to democracy.
Life is full of alternatives but no choice.
Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.
You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.
People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.
The state of Indiana has also sought to make sure we expand alternatives in healthcare counseling for women, non-abortion alternatives, and I'm also very pleased into the fact we're well on our way to becoming the most pro-adoption state in America.
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills' - 'Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me' - 'Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from. Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
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