Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Bruno Latour

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

Abba Eban

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

Arthur Scargill

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

Bruce Campbell

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

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.

Alex Kapranos

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

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.

C. S. Lewis

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

Carl Jung

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

Mason Cooley

Beggars market their incapacity.

Bertrand Russell

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

Aleister Crowley

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

Thomas Hobbes

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.