You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.
We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?
It is clear that these are alternative methods of co-ordinating production. Yet, having regard to the fact that, if production is regulated by price movements, production could be carried on without any organization at all might we ask, why is there any organization?
Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.
I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet. . . . I see truly a non-carbon economy. It's cleaner. It's healthier. We're about out of alternatives, so it's going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing.
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now
I'm for ethanol, and I think it's a very important partial ingredient of the overall mix of alternative and renewable fuels we ought to commit to.
If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.
The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?
He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.
I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.
I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.
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.
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.