Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Marshall McLuhan

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Bobby Jindal

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

Charles Spurgeon

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

Meg Rosoff

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

Nick Zinner

I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

S. Jay Olshansky

The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.

Tracey Emin

I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!'

Robert Webb

When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren't an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it.

Simon Van Booy

Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.

Nicola Sturgeon

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.

Martin Rees

Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.

David Kahn

When we think of ageing of the face,

David Bowie

I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily... it doesn't faze me at all.

Edward Grey

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.

Roger Mears

I think they just about have the building water-tight. I think they'll have it water-tight by the end of the day. I think that we'll probably be alright as long as we don't get hit, you know, with a similar situation.

Ike Davis

I pitched alright because I didn't really have the off -speed pitch, but my fastball was better than most days.

The Beatles

I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend If it makes you feel alright

David Almond

Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything

Michelle Jenneke

I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone's still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral, so, y'know, that's alright for me.

Garrett Godwin

He's not real trendy but he'll do alright out there.

Duncan Fletcher

We can't make a decision over replacements just yet, we have to give it a couple of days. Simon Jones could wake up and be fine in two days, while if the injection works Vaughan could be alright by next week. We'll just have to fiddle things about for the moment.