Not A Second Option Quotes

#1. 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

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

M.F. Moonzajer

#3. The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.

R.C. Sproul

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do to wash away the notes that I've been working on all day. As human beings we need to sleep so that's kind of one of my little tricks.

Aaron Zigman

#7. Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.

Joseph Heller

#8. By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.

Evan Osnos

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

Malala Yousafzai

#10. 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

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

Norman Cousins

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

Dave

#13. Quite the bromance you have there Cole, with Alex Riley..

Josh Mathews

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Anonymous

#17. 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

#18. All the cruellest words a coarse man could say, he said to her in her imagination, and she could not forgive him for them, as if he had actually said them to her.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Barry Schwartz

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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