No Option Quotes

#1. When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me.

Bernard Sumner

#2. A clear prayer for which you take sole responsibility has no option but to manifest, if not today or tomorrow, then the day after that.

Pooja Ruprell

#3. When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

William Gaddis

#5. God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.

John C. Reilly

#6. When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it. You have no option but to feel the rhythm of the universe in the rhythm of your heart.

Amit Ray

#7. Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option.

Susan Rice

#8. It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

Hans Fallada

#9. A work of tragedy would rise to its true moral and edifying possibilities when the audience looked upon the hero's ghastly errors and crimes and was left with no option but to reach the terrifying conclusion: 'How easily I, too, might have done the same.

Alain De Botton

#10. Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#11. If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means ... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.

Ingrid Newkirk

#12. Now You Leave Me No Option But TO Die A Spinter! ~ Rebecca

Rose Haven

#13. There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.

Zachary Cole Smith

#14. I'd have no option than to charge your mother with murder.

S.A. David

#15. You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#16. And now, we have no option. We can't say 'maybe' 'it's possible' 'it looks very probable ... ' No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is the day of the Rapture, it is the day that Judgment Day begins ...

Harold Camping

#17. I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.

Stephen King

#18. I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

Hillary Clinton

#19. I learned the hard way that if you heard you were one thing enough times, eventually you had no option but to start believing it.

Jay Crownover

#20. Hera had no option but to agree to the terms. Everyone left happy. Well, not Hera, but I didn't give a shit how happy she was.

Steve McHugh

#21. Hell is having no option but the wrong one and take it
-Shuuya Nanahara

Koushun Takami

#22. The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

Alan Curbishley

#23. The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City!

Che Guevara

#24. His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.

Kiran Desai

#25. My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

Steve Harvey

#26. Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed ... We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.

Prince Philip

#27. When you said Please to those who...had no option but to obey, what were you really saying?

Joyce Carol Oates

#28. Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

Steve Gleason

#29. When you're meant to do something, life will have a way of giving you no option but follow the road you're meant to walk.

Nely Cab

#30. 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

#31. Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option.

Amen Muffler

#32. We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.

Amit Ray

#33. We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.

Warren Farrell

#34. The best way to love your man, is to help him rise, let him feel his worth so strongly through your eyes; that he has no option but to become greater.

Nikki Rowe

#35. You're my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you're no option at all.

Nick Hornby

#36. But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ...

James Cameron

#37. Avoid the Yes or No-and-Go scenario.Give more than one option for others to do business with you. Include packages or pricing options.

Lisa A. Mininni

#38. When there's no clear option, it's better to do nothing.

Erwin Rommel

#39. When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

Sandra Lee

#40. Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

Joseph Furphy

#41. Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Jacques Ellul

#42. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Caroline Myss

#43. Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

Susie Orbach

#44. 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

#45. The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

Tavi Gevinson

#46. There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

Oliver North

#47. My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

Iain Duncan Smith

#48. There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.

Khaled Mashal

#49. So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option).

Salman Rushdie

#50. Trust me no matter how horrible you feel or how bad things seem, there is always a way out. Suicide is never your only option.

Michael Thomas Ford

#51. You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach!

Israelmore Ayivor

#52. I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option.

Rachel Vincent

#53. 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

#54. Cole: " There's the old Nik. No 'how do you do', no talk of the weather. Just a good swift kick to the balls."
Nikki: "A kick to your balls is an option?

Brodi Ashton

#55. What about us? Can i see you again? You can say no. You'd crush all my hopes and dreams, but it's an option.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.

Edward Said

#57. ( ... ) 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

#58. No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.

Christine Pelosi

#59. Facebook's new relationship status option: "No longer able to interact with actual people"

Andy Borowitz

#60. If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.

Scarlett Alice Johnson

#61. Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

Hillary Clinton

#62. An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.

Na'ama Yehuda

#63. Precarity also characterizes that politically induced condition of maximized precariousness for populations exposed to arbitrary state violence who often have no other option than to appeal to the very state from which they need protection.

Judith Butler

#64. Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work

Usain Bolt

#65. My mother told me once that, a long time ago, there were people who wouldn't buy genetically engineered produce because they viewed it as unnatural. Now we have no other option.

Veronica Roth

#66. The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute ... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

Barack Obama

#67. Education these days is making youths suffer like mental patients, but no one has anything to say about it because there is no other option to be given.

Meghan Blistinsky

#68. Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.

John Shelby Spong

#69. Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.

Sunny Singh

#70. Of course, in the end, when Mapplethorpe turned out to be very gay, Smith was left with no other option than to go off and write Horses and grow the world's most influential lady mustache instead. Her hand was forced into productivity.

Caitlin Moran

#71. Easy
to be delighted
or dismayed by POPULAR CULTURE
but then one has no other option and even
'God, it's so dreadful we watch it because it can't help
being funny' is
to be delighted.

Jennifer Clarvoe

#72. Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you know? And that's OK, you're willing to make that purchase. Sammy Davis, Jr. was 64 when he died. Give me 64 Sammy-years, I'll be happy.

Bill Maher

#73. Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

Magnus Carlsen

#74. So many people who wanted no part of all this. That's what's new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that's over. Completion is the end. We're closing the circle around everyone - it's a totalitarian nightmare.

Dave Eggers

#75. Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

Nicholas Kristof

#76. No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

Valerie Jarrett

#77. If I'm on set and there's no other option, I get on a treadmill, but that's my most hated thing.

Anna Kendrick

#78. A man in this world must solve a problem: to be with Christ, or to be against Him. And every man decides this, whether he wants to or not. He will either be a lover of Christ or a fighter of Christ. There is no third option.

Justin Popovic

#79. The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

Paul Kurtz

#80. It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.

Jerrold Nadler

#81. For them, the last option was to have brain surgery, which involved removing parts of the skull and exposing the brain. (Since the brain has no pain sensors, a person can be conscious during this entire procedure, so Dr. Penfield used only a local anesthetic during the operation.)

Michio Kaku

#82. Radical Forgiveness is much more than the mere letting go of the past. It is the key to creating the life that we want, and the world that we want. It is the key to our own happiness and the key to world peace. It is no longer an option. It is our destiny.

Colin Tipping

#83. When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

Yul Vazquez

#84. The Internet wasn't even an option for me, so one of the reasons I was so motivated to do street art was because there was no other outlet. Maybe if the Internet had been around then, I would have tried to do stuff that went viral and was clever and got me a lot of hits.

Shepard Fairey

#85. Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.

M.F. Moonzajer

#86. Walking out of an A level paper isn't funny."
"It's not that I'm laughing at."
"So what is it?"
"No one ever tells you when you're doing all that course work and revision and timed essays and study skills that it's an option."
"But it isn't an option."
"It is, because I just took it.

Rosamund Lupton

#87. 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

#88. I was investing more and more of myself into an outcome I couldn't predict and would very likely be disappointed by. But for me there was no other option.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#89. We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal ... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

Peter McWilliams

#90. Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

Christopher Paolini

#91. Because dependent and independent are a dichotomy, when you see that something cannot be independent, or functioning under its own power, there is no other option but to see that it is dependent.

Dalai Lama XIV

#92. If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.

Douglas Brinkley

#93. The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

Wladimir Klitschko

#94. Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.

Stephanie Laurens

#95. I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.

Jeb Bush

#96. Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#97. You get one life and it rolls out like a long hallway carpet. It begins on the day you are born and keeps on rolling until you drop. There's no refresh button, no start-over option.

James Preller

#98. I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

Dana Stabenow

#99. It's a little convenient, isn't it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn't make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling you to jump off a bridge, you always have the option to turn around and walk away.

Jodi Picoult

#100. There are no problems that can't be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can't solve the #problem, it's because you haven't found the right option ... But the answer is always there.

Will.i.am