I Am Not Your Second Option Quotes

#1. We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Karen Armstrong

#2. In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand.

Bryan Stevenson

#3. Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen

Dick Cheney

#4. Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

Patty Berg

#5. Either I would change lives or end them. The second option is always available.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help ... When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

Paulo Coelho

#7. The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.

Jennifer Senior

#8. I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

Malala Yousafzai

#9. There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

Walter Murch

#10. Do not let the darkness of others hide the brightness of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#11. It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

Prefuse 73

#12. Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.

Richard E. Byrd

#13. When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

John Lancaster Spalding

#14. If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

Lisa Kleypas

#15. The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless.

Martin St. Louis

#16. Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

Norman Cousins

#17. Friend is cullinan diamond, they can not be a second option as boyfriend.

Dave

#18. I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.

Yoshida Kenko

#19. The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

Oren Moverman

#20. The second rat, of course, may have been the first rat farther uptown, in which case I am either being followed or the rat keeps the same rounds and hours I do. I think sanity, however, is the most profound moral option of our time. Two rats, then.

Renata Adler

#21. Doc. There is no 'something else' for me. There's no second option. It's you. It's just you.

Anonymous

#22. When I said I had no choice about helping you, I meant it. There was no other option because you are the only option. I don't trust anything at the moment. But the one thing I am sure of, the one thing I do trust ... " he paused for a fraction of a second, "is the way I feel about you.

Sarah Alderson

#23. Adding the second option creates a conflict, forcing a trade-off between price and quality.

Barry Schwartz

#24. A good doctor. He would not let her take pills. Try each day just to laugh a little bit, it's a good medicine, he said. Pills were a second option. I should have taken them. No. Better off to try laughing. Die laughing.

Colum McCann

#25. It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship.

Susan Wiggs

#26. If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

Julian Casablancas

#27. I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Karl Lagerfeld

#28. There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

Bill Murray

#29. The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be corrupted and extinguished utterly.

Germaine Greer

#30. One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room ...
Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not.
The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.

Seth Godin