Option Quotes

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free. (Tom Hodgkinson)
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
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. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. View quote
Peter McWilliams
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. View quote
Mark Twain
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative. View quote
Dale T. Mortensen
When I get married, it will be for life - divorce is not an option. View quote
Kelly Rowland
Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group. View quote
John C. Reilly
That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option. (Gordon Brown)
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. View quote
James Frey
I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future. View quote
James Frey
Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older. View quote
George Clooney
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option. View quote
PZ Myers
If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means. ... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. View quote
Elon Musk
Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
An option hides where we don't want it to hide. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan. View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
If failure is not an option, then neither is success. View quote
Seth Godin
If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have. View quote
Gillian Anderson
Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you know? And that's OK, you're willing to make that purchase. Sammy Davis, Jr. was 64 when he died. Give me 64 Sammy-years, I'll be happy. View quote
Bill Maher