Viable Option Quotes

#1. In pre-colonial Africa, men who had sexual relationship with older men almost always married a woman later in life and had children. Exclusive homosexuality would not have been and is still not a viable option for Africans who value wealth and patronymic extension through marriage.

Chantal Zabus

#2. When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. Free-loading at emergency rooms - mandated by government - makes being uninsured a viable option.

Thomas Sowell

#4. Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five years, it's this: if a piece of your house falls off and you don't know what to do with it, throwing it in the trash and forgetting about it is a perfectly viable option.

Meghan Daum

#5. 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

#6. We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

Peter MacKay

#7. There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

Edward Abbey

#8. It's not about Al," I snap. "It's about everyone watching! Everyone who now sees
hurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyone
calls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It's ... I
can't ...

Veronica Roth

#9. Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.

Simi Linton

#11. Making love to robots will probably be great one day. It's just not a viable option right now.

John Vanderslice

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

Christine Pelosi

#13. Eli: 'If a machine like that really existed, people would be willing to kill for it. Lots of people.'
Nora: 'Yeah, and if hot vampires really existed, suicide would be a viable option for wrinkle prevention. Your point?

Robin Wasserman

#14. When it comes to the subject it's best to understand that
white people do not recognize public transit as a viable option until a subway line is built that runs directly from their house to their work.

Christian Lander

#15. And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

Ralph Ellison

#16. A wounded love carries a scar to the grave.

Arnold Haultain

#17. I started to make some commercials, which was a way for me to finally make a living at last. But it was only really a couple of films in that it looked like a viable career option.

Lenny Abrahamson

#18. One option was to become a writer; the other, which seemed more viable, was to go properly mad. I would be supported by the state and would never have to work or take on any responsibility.

Paulo Coelho

#19. I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

Kevin Systrom

#20. Never before have I been so tempted to chase someone.

M. Leighton

#21. Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl Of Hardwicke

#22. Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed.

Iain M. Banks

#23. Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

Katherine Center

#24. Do you want me to sing to you? I'll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away.

Stephenie Meyer

#25. I suppose that my inner soul - my dual personality - had realized long before that Florence was a personality of paper - that she represented a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank-note represents a certain quantity of gold.

Ford Madox Ford

#26. Man ate angels' food of old - and why not now? O for grace to feed on Jesus, and so to eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#27. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

Peg Bracken