Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Johnson

The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

William H. Seward

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

Kurt Cobain

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

Manfred Eigen

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

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.

Peter Singer

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Thomas Piketty

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Carlos Mencia

Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. Maybe I come from a working family. Maybe it's the voice of my mom saying, 'You've always got to be nice to people.' I look at it as saying it's going to be fun. Those people are going to be really, really happy.

Mark Calcavecchia

I thought somebody would shoot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9-under.

Walker Percy

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

Milan Kundera

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

Oprah Winfrey

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

Freya Stark

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Robert Kirkman

I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.

Thomas Carlyle

How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

Ron Howard

3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

Steven Pinker

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Max Lerner

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.