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.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Sarah Silverman

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

Vladimir Lenin

He who does not work shall not eat

Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Saint Francis de Sales

The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.

Nana Sutresna

In terms of denying the allegations - they used the words 'strongly deny' - they feel that this kind of measures has no foundation.

Melissa Frame

In some ways I'm a pioneer. I know my limitations -- I can't deny them -- but I really have great parents who try to let me do as much as possible, and I've had people encourage me throughout my life, so I've never let it stop me, at least in theater.

Denis Conroy

It was a game of runs. What they did a really good job of was denying the other players, other than Sam. They're like a glacier ? they wear you down.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Rachel Cusk

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

Mark Demko

American Idol' is an incredible phenomenon, and it keeps growing. You can't deny its popularity. Tens of millions of people watch it.

Will Walker

They were denying me real well. It got frustrating, but I had to do other things to stay involved.

Ravi Moss

It's not one or two things; it's everything . It's getting in your stance to denying the ball.

Acie Law

I tried to get it back but OU did a good job of denying me the ball. So the second option was for Joe to try to go down and make a play and he didn't make it.