It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
I can speak Esperanto like a native.
~By Spike Milligan ~
The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.
~By Jared Diamond ~
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
~By Audre Lorde ~
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
~By Pierce Brosnan ~
That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.
~By Payne Stewart ~
The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.
~By John Russell ~
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.
~By Donald Cargill ~
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
~By Sydney Schanberg ~
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
~By Edwin Booth ~
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.
~By John Walker Lindh ~
I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
~By Janet Reno ~
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
~By Emma Goldman ~
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
~By Joe Slovo ~
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.
~By David Bruce ~
The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
~By William Hurt ~
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
~By Robert E. Sherwood ~
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.
~By Tim Murphy ~
What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
~By Mary Wesley ~
The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.
~By John Baldacci ~
It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.
~By Virgil Goode ~
I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
~By Connie Willis ~
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
~By Charlie Haden ~
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
~By Ron Kind ~
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
~By Sally Kempton ~
We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.
~By Peter MacKay ~
Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
~By Penelope Lively ~
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
~By Bob Brown ~
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
~By Georg Solti ~
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
~By Jim Woodring ~
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.
~By Richard Neal ~
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
~By Studs Terkel ~
Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
~By Raul Grijalva ~
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
~By Patton Oswalt ~
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
~By Graham Greene ~
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
~By Herbert Croly ~
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.
~By Rick Renzi ~
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
~By William Wiley ~
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
~By William Shenstone ~
If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.
~By Rick Renzi ~
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
~By Alexander Chase ~
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
~By Jerome S. Bruner ~
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
~By Daniel Boone ~
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
~By Beau Bridges ~
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
~By Emma Goldman ~
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.
~By Judy Biggert ~
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
~By Terri Windling ~
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
~By George Santayana ~
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
~By Northrop Frye ~
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
~By Lucian Freud ~
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.
~By Marvin Harris ~
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
~By Stewart Udall ~
A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
~By Matt Groening ~
Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.
~By Kiana Tom ~
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
~By Milton Friedman ~
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
~By Charles Eastman ~
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
~By Benjamin Whorf ~
Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.
~By Virgil Goode ~
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
~By Hudson Stuck ~
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
~By Sean Bean ~
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.
~By Standing Bear ~
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
~By John Drinkwater ~
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.
~By Rick Renzi ~
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
~By Herman Wouk ~
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
~By Howard Stringer ~
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.
~By John G. D. Clark ~
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