One And Only Option Quotes

#1. I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's always, 'Are you with him, or him?' Perish the thought it might be both.

Jade Jagger

#2. 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

#3. Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with troublesome side effects, there is hope for improving or reversing your condition.

Leon Chaitow

#4. When you begin to reason with the Lord, your attitude to the issues of life will change.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#5. For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is ... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

Vladimir Putin

#6. When your only option is to jump, you jump and try to make it work.

Brandon Mull

#7. If you Don't where you going, look back and see where you have come from

Jason Aites

#8. I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.

Nico Tortorella

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

Joseph Furphy

#10. Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.

W. Bruce Cameron

#11. 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

#12. For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Erwin Rommel

#14. When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.

Daniel Kehlmann

#15. Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

Caroline Myss

#16. Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Renata Adler

#17. 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

#18. Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.

Johnny Hunt

#19. I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

Noam Chomsky

#20. The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy has brought disaster to the United States. This crazy man should go and also his subject, disciple and follower UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Naji Sabri

#21. Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you'll look across the breakfast table and realize the only option is obedience training. -Grandmamma Holmes

Emma Jane Holloway

#22. Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some people come only to give us their contact information, let us know that we really need to get together sometime, and why don't we give them a call?

Caprice Crane

#23. Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt, and that is to produce more [corn]

Michael Pollan

#24. My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren't glitter, well, that only left one other option.

Rachel Vincent

#25. In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it.

Daphne Zuniga

#26. There's always another option.
There's always another one.
It's never only 'this' or 'that,'
The moon or else the sun.

Don't sigh and choose the greater
Or lesser of two plights.
But look to see the stars beyond
For options vast and bright.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. Healthier team members get a bigger food discount. We give our sickest team members an option to go through what we call the Total Health Immersion, where we take them off for a week, and we do intensive diet-and-lifestyle education.

John Mackey

#28. Remember that quitting is always an option, and it's the only one that guarantees a predictable result. Stay in the fight and everything is at risk. Quit and you know what will happen NOTHING!

Jim Bouchard

#29. If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.

Jon Ronson

#30. There was only one option left, and it was letting go.

Veronica Roth

#31. 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

#32. I believe we can choose Love and gratitude, or choose Other Than. Those are our options, and in the end, there's only one option.

Kelly Corbet

#33. If life wasn't going to be like a Hollywood film, there was only one option: fuck life and rent the film instead.

Scarlett Thomas

#34. Moments ... there are always moments where a decision has to be made. In mortal life there is always a choice. One road or another? The ultimate choose your own adventure story. In the clans, there is only one option, and that is to do whatever your clan's oracle tells you to do.

Kim Cormack

#35. We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#36. Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.

Mark Lawrence

#37. If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know.

Richard Diaz

#38. I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

Marissa Mayer

#39. Well, yes, Dustpaw, launching an attack and knocking me back across the border is one option. But is it wise to take on a cat twice your size?

Erin Hunter

#40. I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you know.

Truth Devour

#41. I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or guilty, or child-laden, and what I'm really thinking is, If you really got it together, the option you would choose is mine.

Nora Ephron

#42. History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.

Simon Schama

#43. Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion.

Karen Armstrong

#44. He wanted to dismiss Saint Rosaline's comments out of hand, but this was impossible because he knew that the comments came from the recesses of this own mink. Either that, or he was truly going mad, which at this point seemed like an attractive option.

Suzanne Harper

#45. 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

#46. Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.

Timothy McVeigh

#47. Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.

Amit Ray

#48. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#49. I am a champion, and my damsel is in distress. Failure is not an option." "But death is," she mumbled under her breath. "Fear not, mate. I will prevail." Famous last words.

Eve Langlais

#50. I often think of death.
True.
Suicide is a reasonable option.
True.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I leave it blank.

James Frey

#51. I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Garamendi

#52. You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

Paul Keating

#53. Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.

Sarah Hall

#54. I found myself when I least expected you- at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same flavor of tea. The only difference was the tea had turned cold, just as life had. And I found myself with an option. I could abandon this tea anytime and make a fresh one. You see?

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#55. He'd promised her forever, but now that there was another option, would he want to take it? He'd said not, but Bessina had butterflies taking up residence in her stomach at the thought. She had to know for sure.

Inger Iversen

#56. The beauty of the infantry is its ability to truly teach tolerance. At the lowest level, when it is simply a matter of survival to count on everyone around you, regardless of religion or skin color, the only logical option is to ignore the differences.

Adam Fenner

#57. I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

Arthur M. Jolly

#58. Anyone can run the option. I can run the option.

Urban Meyer

#59. Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.

Michael Lewis

#60. 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

#61. A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Simone Weil

#62. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#63. Perfect was my only option.

Kiera Cass

#64. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.

Orrin Woodward

#65. 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

#66. In the growth option, any gain is adjusted in the NAV and money continues to be invested until redeemed.

Jigar Patel