#alternatives

Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#choices #funny

There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#cell #cell research #creating #destroying #embryonic

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#alternatives #career #clearly #expensive #insisting

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

#business #business model #choose #critical #depending

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#anyone #born #certain #circumstances #era

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#amsterdam #because #flights #fly #flying

Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail. ↗

— Shane Filan

#avail #bankruptcy #experts #exploring #financial

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#available #dvd #exist #movie #movie theaters

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#alternatives #exist #first #first thing #look

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community. ↗

— Janet Reno

#back #come #community #each #four