Best Alternatives Quotes

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

Don’t fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I’d have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve… If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I’d be taking out ads.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living – only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

You can always rely on America to do the right thing — once it has exhausted the alternatives.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one’s physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as ‘Don’t ask and don’t tell,’ needs to be abandoned — that is not in anyone’s best interest.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

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.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life – the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

Crazy is good. The alternative is normal.

While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

I’m simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products – so what? I don’t need to care, because I happily don’t have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

I could be an alternative comic. I could be that really dark – I was – I was a very dark comic to begin with. I could be that guy, and the only reason I didn’t is that I wanted to make money. I wanted to be popular. I wanted to be liked more than I wanted to be admired.

There’s no real alternative to what there is.

Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but that being out of the question, except for lunatics and leaders, art is a good alternative.