Top 100 An Option Quotes
#1. I had to be different ... so I would not be inferior. We could not occupy the same space together. Like horses in a race, I was tired of jostling for position and losing. I chose a different course so that losing would not be an option.
Julianne Donaldson
#2. Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
Timothy McVeigh
#3. Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.
Tony Robbins
#4. Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both ... It's easy to create an all-truth church model. It may be even easier to create an all-grace model, but Jesus didn't leave either option on the table.
Andy Stanley
#5. When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
Ben Harper
#6. He'd always wondered what he'd do when victory wasn't an option.
Evan Currie
#7. If you want, I'll gather all the things I don't mind you smashing and put them on the coffee table, or an alternate option, I can go grab you a bottle of beer, I offered. He
Kristen Ashley
#8. The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
Jimmy Carter
#9. But telling a giraffe killer that I need someone is not an option.
Nikki Godwin
#10. Perhaps the couple got married at 25 and now they're 45 and this is an option. And if a couple is still together, or perhaps finds its way back together, I like to say that it's forever. They belong together, it's a good fit, it's the right pairing. It almost gives me goose bumps.
Volkmar Sigusch
#11. As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#12. This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
Joe Biden
#13. 56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.
Gordon Brown
#14. I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.
Taylor Swift
#17. ( ... ) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. ( ... ) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence - once they became an option - they mutated ... into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.
Chip Kidd
#18. Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice.
Nina Easton
#19. The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute ... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response
Barack Obama
#20. Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
Warren Adler
#21. You wanna have it out?" Drew challenged without heat. "We will. And I'll win. Losing you is not an option.
Cambria Hebert
#22. Aging is not an option, but how we age is completely within our choices. Lifestyle
Sharon Lee Rasa
#23. Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
Trent Reznor
#24. I have to win races. It's not even an option.
Joey Logano
#25. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
Charles Rangel
#26. An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated.
Albert Mohler
#27. They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.
Chael Sonnen
#28. If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.
Suzanne Brockmann
#29. It's okay to be scared, and it's okay to fail. But you have to try. Not trying isn't an option.
Jessica Bendinger
#30. I take the choice out of exercise. It's not an option.
Gabrielle Reece
#32. It was never an option. Love never fails, Mila. And I'll never fail you again. That's a promise.
Courtney Cole
#33. He opened his mouth to order her to drop the MP5 she had aimed at him, but nothing would come out. It was like she'd robbed him of the ability to speak. Shooting her wasn't an option, though. And the idea of arresting her didn't make him feel any better.
Paige Tyler
#34. Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.
Tim Wise
#35. Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option.
Kenneth Eade
#36. Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.
Craig Benzine
#37. My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.
Summer Sanders
#38. Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.
Luis Palau
#39. If soulmates did exist I am pretty sure they would never divorce you, dump you, kick you out, separate from you or make you an option. They would never give up because you meant that much to them.
Shannon L. Alder
#40. I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.
Susan Hill
#41. Every time one person chooses a new way to respond to the challenges of life, each time an individual chooses a new option, that person then becomes a living bridge for all the others who choose to follow in that person's path.
Gregg Braden
#42. You're living life in real time, man, and we' ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes.
Ben Harper
#43. I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'
Emraan Hashmi
#44. Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. Leaving 'GH' was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.
Tyler Christopher
#46. For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
Ben Nelson
#47. Time to dig deep and find a Quinn Rowland capable of convincing Emilie to let me fuck her, because losing wasn't an option. There was too much at stake, and my pride was the least important item on the list.
Lyla Payne
#48. Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.
Andie MacDowell
#49. I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#50. A doctor who is interested in sex can advise patients. I became a better doctor by my late private sexual revolution. I ask the right questions in an easy non intrusive way, giving them option not to talk about or talk about it- their choice. They often start talking.
Lucie Novak
#51. I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
Jess Walter
#52. As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.
Robert Griffin III
#53. Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing the right thing in making a choice or decision even if it is not the immediately obvious option or an experience of knowing the probable outcome just as it is beginning to unfold.
Sylvia Clare
#54. And she knew this silent dance between them would be decided tonight, one way or the other. Either she tore down every one of her defenses and accepted his claim to the soul, or she walked away. Except she didn't think the latter was an option.
Nalini Singh
#55. Even if it were decided in extreme cases that abortion is an ethical option, the extreme cases should not dictate the general law.
R.C. Sproul
#56. The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow For better or for worse
it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option
Tom Brokaw
#57. When Jesus defines the relationship he wants with us he makes it clear that being a fan who believes without making any real commitment to follow isn't an option.
Kyle Idleman
#58. I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
Emeli Sande
#59. I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.
Robert Powell
#60. The volatile natural gas market has affected us all, and we are giving our customers an option to lock in their electricity price for the entire year. This will allow them to anticipate their electricity bills and budget accordingly throughout 2006.
Jim Burke
#61. Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar.
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.
Ken Mehlman
#63. How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?
Ramit Sethi
#64. Sorry, pigtails, but subtlety isn't an option anymore.
T.A. Miles
#65. In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
Naveen Jain
#66. I cannot afford to get upset, to leave this room with puffy eyes and a red nose. Crying is not an option.
Suzanne Collins
#67. Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.
David Goggins
#68. There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."
Donny Deutsch
#69. The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didn't want to find. Emotionally, it would have been easiest for me to just hold on to what I grew up believing, but mentally that wasn't an option anymore.
Tim Lambesis
#70. I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.
Mark Morris
#71. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maya Angelou
#72. What is the definition of "love"? Jesus answered that by depicting a man meeting material, physical, and economic needs through deeds. Caring for people's material and economic needs is not an option for Jesus. He refused to allow the law expert to limit the implications of this command to love.
Timothy J. Keller
#73. Money has not changed me. When I look at money, each dollar represents an option of something I could not do yesterday.
Farrah Gray
#74. In an ideal world, we'd all transform ourselves into experts and make judgments based on extensive knowledge. Given that this will never happen, our next best option is to emulate the wisdom of Socrates: We become wiser when we acknowledge our ignorance.
Joshua Greene
#75. Is there an option C? Take a vacation somewhere sunny, and drink a lot of rum until the world unfucks itself?
Devon Monk
#77. In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
Eva Longoria
#78. I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.
Matthew Quick
#79. I'll never let you go again,Melanie.Never.Nothing will come between us ... nothing.
I would destroy anything,and anyone who tried to take her from me.
Being away from her was no longer an option.
She was mine.Only mine.
A.L. Jackson
#80. Knowing what we believe and why we believe it is not an option for the Christian, because as believers, OUR BELIEFS ARE THE VERY HEART OF WHO WE ARE.
Patty Houser
#81. Marriage isn't between man & women. It's between God & you and divorce is not an option
Kloby
#82. I was dancing on the edge of something new, though maybe not completely new, if I had to be honest with myself, and I wasn't sure what I would do if I fell, if falling was an option, if falling was something I was actually meant to do all along.
Cary Attwell
#83. You should know that if we do fucking kill you, the we'll just delete you. You got that? One click and then you're overwriten with random ones and zeros. Undelete is not an option.
Neil Gaiman
#84. I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.
Angela Bassett
#85. Everything felt too hard,' John-Paul had said. 'Going to sleep forever just seemed like an easier option.
Liane Moriarty
#86. How impossible it
is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you
couldn't even imagine.
Laurie J. Marks
#87. I'd never saved anyone or anything in my whole life. I didn't like the idea of it. I was nobody's hero. But the alternative option would have been to let Georgie die, so I guess just this once an exception had to be made.
Sarah Darlington
#88. Everyone expected him to succeed, no matter what the arena, and so failure, even temporary failure, had ceased to be an option.
Chad Harbach
#89. Not planned... Hoped for maybe, but not planned. I'm a guy. I pretty much always think sex might be an option.
Heather Thurmeier
#90. This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
Rory Stewart
#91. You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.
Ilona Andrews
#92. Goodbye," Mort said, and was surprised to find a lump in his throat. "It's such an unpleasant word, isn't it?" QUITE SO. Death grinned because, as has so often been remarked, he didn't have much option. But possibly he meant it, this time. I PREFER AU REVOIR, he said.
Terry Pratchett
#93. Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.
Tori Spelling
#94. Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.
Romeo Dallaire
#96. Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."
Joy Bryant
#97. One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.
Warren Stephens
#99. I needed some stability, which is why I chose not to change from HRC for this season, which was an option that we had. Apart from being the best team in the world, I also needed some consistency.
Sete Gibernau
#100. I was ready to get the hell off the mountain, but somehow that offered no satisfaction. I had gotten in too deep. I would have been so easy if only I could have cried. But crying wasn't an option, because I felt that far ahead of me there was something really worth crying about.
Haruki Murakami
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
