#alter

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#advantage #alternatives #always #between #bring

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#alternative #ask #change #change the world #degree

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alexander #breakthrough #discovered #european #few

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail. ↗

— George W. Bush

#fail #falter #peace #prevail #tire

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative. ↗

— George W. Bush

#iraq #meet #obligations #prefers #prepared

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate. ↗

— Fred Upton

#altering #change #continues #discoveries #dramatically

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#always #cobain #embodiment #great #guitar

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#alternatives #destiny #future #into #leads

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#brown #felt #had #league #owner

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#decisive #earth #effect #had #marine