Top 100 Quotes About Option
#1. The problem with cell phones is that you can't slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It's not satisfying at all.
I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.
Holly Black
#2. Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.
Ruth Rendell
#3. I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.
Deborah Feldman
#5. It had never occurred to Amithi that anything more than fine was an option.
Susan Gloss
#6. They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.
Robert Dale Owen
#7. Glue guys aren't superstars. They're not the No. 1 option. They just do things only coaches really appreciate. The stars get the headlines, but glue guys help you get in the winner's circle. I don't think you can win without having that kind of player.
Dick Vitale
#8. I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.
Verghese Kurien
#9. Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
Gary Kovacs
#10. I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.
Marcus Samuelsson
#11. In the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking ... Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.
Antonio Guterres
#12. I cannot afford to get upset, to leave this room with puffy eyes and a red nose. Crying is not an option.
Suzanne Collins
#13. 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
#14. There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."
Donny Deutsch
#16. Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type
Fran Lebowitz
#17. It's the worst yet. I'm in TEFL City.'
'TEFL City' because we called those times 'TEFL-pondering mornings', when your only option felt like emigration and teaching.
Emma Jane Unsworth
#18. I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality
the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity.
Freeman Tilden
#19. 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
#20. Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore.
Brendan Myers
#21. I would have appreciated the option of joining you and Reece instead of being left with the three bickering hens. I thought you were more compassionate, Levi. -Harrison Oxley
S.L. Morgan
#22. There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.
Thelma Drake
#23. What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
Max Lucado
#24. But while having some choice is generally good, it seems that having too many options tends to undermine our feelings of satisfaction, no matter which option we choose.
Sam Harris
#25. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#26. 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
#27. Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option.
Anonymous
#28. Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes.
Charlie Munger
#29. I need us to be indestructible. I can't return to cold and alone. Things are complicated. No doubt. But we'll battle through this. We have to. Giving up is not an option.
"Me and you," I whisper.
Katie McGarry
#30. You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.
Patricia Arquette
#31. Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.
Karen Armstrong
#32. The two times I have cut my hair shorter, I've ended up out of work - so short hair is not an option.
Marie Helvin
#33. Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#34. Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.
James Cameron
#35. Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.
Emily Haines
#36. Miseries are often an option and it depends on perception.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.
Bill O'Reilly
#38. You learn about fight or flight, but no one ever mentions the third alliterative option - freeze.
Nina Malkin
#39. Jenks snorted, crumpling up the empty bag and throwing it away. "You can help Rachel by dropping dead."
"That's still an option," said Ivy.
Kim Harrison
#40. Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.
Gabriel Campisi
#41. Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it.
Chris Matakas
#42. Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan of Free music. Having said that, Jazz is based on individual expression and I'm compelled to respect the Free player's option to express himself as he chooses.
Pete La Roca
#43. 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
#44. The door opens and my new neighbor is a vampire. He's nearly a foot taller than me. Unruly ink-black hair, and a face made of knife angles. If I were obnoxious, I might use the term shockingly attractive . Or terrifyingly handsome . Holy mother of balls would also be an option.
Eva Morgan
#45. I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when I'm on tour that's always a good option.
James Maslow
#46. The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#47. Strength comes from giving yourself to another. It comes from deep in your heart, the very thing you share with that other person. It comes from knowing that fear isn't an option where a future is so certain.
Emma Hart
#48. This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.
Daniel Schultz
#49. The third option - alertness, passive alertness - is also an effort but the dimension is different. The energy moves upward. In the beginning it is an effort.
Osho
#50. My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.
Dianna Agron
#51. We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
Lynn Swann
#52. Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Alexander Hamilton
#53. The Bible is not an option; it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.
Billy Graham
#54. Adding the second option creates a conflict, forcing a trade-off between price and quality.
Barry Schwartz
#55. 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
#56. I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.
Sean Penn
#57. I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
Paloma Faith
#58. 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
#59. Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman."
Patricia Schroeder
#60. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maya Angelou
#61. When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.
Caroline Lucas
#62. 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
#63. I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.
Eminem
#64. It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.
Ross Perot Jr.
#65. Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option
Chip Beck
#66. When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#68. Do good works or commission an opera house or just take it out and gaze at it longingly when you think of the handsome prince you might have made your own. For the record, I favor the latter option, preferably paired with copious tears and the recitation of bad poetry.
Leigh Bardugo
#69. Struggle is not an option: it's a biological requirement.
Daniel Coyle
#70. You can't stop me. It's the only option we have to get those Weres off Rachel's tail, so unless you have a suggestion, I suggest you shut up.
Kim Harrison
#71. To be happy is to love yourself. I understand it now and so the only option seems is TO BE.
Rohit
#73. These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.
Marc Andreessen
#74. Don't settle for being an option; become a priority.
Matt Mitchell
#75. How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?
John McCain
#76. All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!
Bill Crawford
#77. Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.
Veronica Roth
#78. The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.
Donny Deutsch
#79. The gods have been kicking us around for a long time. When do we say enough?'
'And in their absence, High Fist, will we manage things any better?'
'No,' Paran said, walking past him 'but at least then we won't have the option of blaming someone else.
Steven Erikson
#80. I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.
Igor Luksic
#81. It's hard to watch someone you care about suffer. But when you love someone, you do it. You do it without question or reservation. You do it because there's no other option - because the thought of being without them is a hundred times more excruciating than bearing their burden.
Priscilla Glenn
#82. You couldn't have just said you wanted to be dragged back to the house and fucked, huh?" "I didn't know that was an option!
Abigail Roux
#83. And I was cooking for three, and teaching, and taking care of a man who'd just collapsed in my house; learning to cook like June Cleaver didn't exactly seem an option.
Mark Doty
#84. 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
#85. Personally, I'd rather shove a cactus up my ass, but apparently that option isn't on the table, so I might as well just rip the Band-Aid off now and get it over with.
Katja Millay
#86. I couldn't imagine choosing shopping when sex was an option.
Cindi Madsen
#87. Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.
Jodie Foster
#88. My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'
Lemmy Kilmister
#89. 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
#90. He said he didn't want to brave yet, and I simply replied with being brave isn't an option in this world.
Shuno
#91. When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.
Johan Cruijff
#92. Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that's not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.
Jean Chatzky
#93. There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.
Pharrell Williams
#95. We survivors face life's challenges with strength and courage, and defeat is never an option. We are insulated by the Grace of God, for we are His faithful.
Robert Palasciano
#97. Even though the situation may look dire, God is our light in the darkness. We are in a spiritual war, but failure is not an option. We are victors. We are conquerors. We always win.
Angela Lane Woods
#98. We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.
Peter MacKay
#99. The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.
Will Self
#100. 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
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