Quotes about Options
He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?
— Victor Hugo
They suggest that the essence of principled negotiation is to separate the person from the problem, to focus on interests and not on positions, to invent options for mutual gain, and to insist on objective criteria—some external standard or principle that both parties can buy into.
— Stephen Covey
You may be out of options, but according to the Bible you are never out of hope.
— Max Lucado
Misery or divorce don't ever have to be your only two options.
— Stormie Omartian
A lot of your life is shaped by the opportunities you turn down as much as those you take up.
— Bill Clinton
This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one center.
— Henry David Thoreau
I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.
— Hillary Clinton
There are no have-to's, just choices
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. Right. Yes. The usual choices.
— Margaret Atwood
There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.
— Margaret Atwood
Faced with an infinite number of choices, many people pick the market leader.
— Seth Godin
Always a choice, even in not choosing.
— Elizabeth Musser