Life.Consider the alternative.

-McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall
  War and Peace in the Global Village.

   What being a Christian means, at the very least, is that whenever there is a decision to be made, which may be several times a day, an alternative should not be discarded simply because it is sacrificial.

-Peck, M(organ) Scott
  What Return Can I Make?

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

-Self,Will
The QuantityTheory of Insanity and Five Supporting Propositions,'The QuantityTheory of Insanity'.

There is no easy popularity, in that I believe that people accept that there is no alternative.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  On her Government's stringent economic policies. Speech at the ConservativeWomen's Conference, 21 May.