Option Quotations

Leaving 'GH' was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?

I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.

One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.

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.

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.

I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer detainees from this facility elsewhere... It is in the U.S.'s national security interest to do so.

I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me.

I needed some stability, which is why I chose not to change from HRC for this season, which was an option that we had. Apart from being the best team in the world, I also needed some consistency.

Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore.

The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me.

I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.

If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply.

I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.

I eventually grew into a pre-teen Marilyn Munster, that being the only option I could find that allowed for a) blonde hair, b) a fondness for frilly pink things and wearing ribbons in your hair, and c) hanging out with monsters.

Dia de Los Muertos is a holiday that pays tribute to the dead and also celebrates life. So I thought, what better of an idea to bring it in with PETA and let people know how we can respect the living and the dead. Going vegetarian could be an incredible option for people if they would just educate themselves.

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

Apprenticeships are a particularly effective way to create career pathways with upward mobility and strong earning potential. Because apprentices receive a paycheck, it's a great option for those with families to support, including many veterans.

They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.

Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Is there no room at the inn for an honest conservative? A conservative who makes the case for smaller government on its merits and not just as the fallback option when fiscal bankruptcy threatens?

It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return.

Traditional nursing facilities are sterile institutions rather than homes - which is why many Americans do not want to live in one or want this as their only option for themselves or their family members.

Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option.

The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.

I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.

Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

With Zipcar, consumers avoid the upfront cost of buying a car, not to mention gas, insurance, and repairs. Plus, they reduce the number of polluting vehicles on the road. Suddenly the planet-smart carless option is also the convenient money-saving option.

My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future.

Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.

The idea behind the Anti Tour was people asking me how I would top the 'Aphrodite' tour... I thought the best option was to go completely the other way. I always tried to be that way - sometimes it works and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.

We are proud to welcome the Best Western All Star Inn and Suites to our chain. We are excited to raise the Best Western Flag in Chatsworth and offer guests another quality lodging option in Southern California.

We've always been known as a option team. But we've been able to pass the ball the past couple of games and get ourselves out of some trouble. We hit some big third downs and some long passes and it was good for us.

We usually present classes like this in our training room downtown, so the chance to get out into the neighborhood and connect directly with the community is really exciting. It's important to provide the option of business ownership to everybody.

We are pleased that we obtained a rig and drilled this initial well with no problems. Should this well be productive in commercial quantities, we will exercise our option to obtain a 100% working interest in approximately 7,600 acres in this prospect.

We believe that no child should suffer from a preventable or treatable disorder. With today's FDA approval, we are happy to know that there is a new treatment option for children suffering from short stature caused by severe Primary IGFD.

We believe that most of the services provided by Crown corporations could easily be delivered by a competitive free market system. And we believe it's time for Manitoba to have the debate: Do we still want government-run auto insurance or do Manitobans want an option with a free market system.

There is no negotiating with a man like this, ... There is no safe path to accommodate his ambitions. Our only responsible option was to confront this threat before more Americans die. He must be removed from power.

There is no need to change strategy. That strategy is working. There is no quicker or more feasible option at this time.

Until now, financially justifying an investment in an automated system just wasn't an option for many customers. Now finally customers have an affordable option.

We'd like to develop a treatment option for early breast cancers that minimizes disfigurement and spares normal tissues.

Whether that changes over time, we'll see. The option is now there for tournament committees to use the rule if they choose.

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

What we're presenting is simply an option to accelerate projects, which is tolls, and get some of these needed highway improvements done quicker.

When we come to a decision, we make that move regardless of when it is. Some team could pick Kareem up at a nominal cost and still have the right (to pick up the option on his contract for next season).

What he did was the right thing for him. Unfortunately, it has a negative influence on a lot of other people. Going into professional sports and making the money he's made does not close the option for him to still get a formal education. It does close the option for a kid that does not make it. If I'm some kid from the inner-city who has used athletics to motivate myself and I miss, I have no more options.

Weber State has some conflicts with the Big Sky events so we will probably continue to rotate the tournament between Weber State and the E Center. The University of Utah has also expressed some interest in having the tournament at the Huntsman Center so that's an option too.

We're going to have to do a great job shifting gears in getting ready for something that's absolutely, totally different from what we've faced, ... It puts pressure on everybody. It is another form of the triple option. The forms of deception that they have with their form of the triple option is unique. It was last year, and it is this year.

We're moving him to slot back and he'll get a lot of option pitches and run pass routes. He has great hands.

Yes, both Channels 7 and 10 have been given the first option to purchase,

With their current offer the board is given the option of protecting themselves by rehiring every three years to avoid firing. We also want to protect experienced teachers.

With the increasing volatility in the gas and coal markets, it makes good sense to consider nuclear power as an option to expand our generating fleet.

With the increased attention in this area, we want to offer customers an easy to use option to set their own personal volume limit.

We're getting a lot more looks. It's not like we're the last option. We're the first option in a lot of the packages we run.

With the self-service option at our dining centers, there's unlimited amounts of food. Having nutritional values available means students are less likely to overeat. Having the values available helps them make smarter food choices.

With what Doncaster offer and the way they attack, we feel Jon is a stronger defensive option than Dave. It's all about timing as well - Jon wants to go out and prove a few critics wrong, but he knows he still has a few things to work on.

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

Ultimately the people will have to decide which programs they would like to sponsor with additional revenue, ... Any additional revenue source will be at the option of the citizen. IF they feel any additional area is needed, then its their decision whether to fund it.

Ultimately, customers want their business problems solved and the on-demand model provides another option to help accomplish that important and necessary feat.

With today's FDA approval, we are happy to know that there is a new treatment option for children suffering from short stature caused by severe Primary IGFD.

With today's announcement, we are giving customers the best of both worlds: more value from existing applications, which we plan to enhance indefinitely, and an option to upgrade free-of-charge to future technologies, if customers have a business case to do so.

We're still talking about what we should do at this point, but I can tell you every possible option has been considered. We've talked about using a four-man rotation. I wouldn't rule out anything.

We're still going to be an option team, but with Lee it was easier, ... We still believe in high school football to be successful you need to run the football and play solid defense. That's what we're going to try and do.

We're looking for every option to save money. Every penny we can save, we will save.

We have said repeatedly that we jumped first and gave them the chance to act... and a second chance. Doing nothing is not a cost-free option to republicans,

We have no option but to win. The consequences of losing are catastrophic.

We want him to keep starting. If he goes 80 pitches and five or six innings, it's fair to say he's now an option for us.

We were at the captains meeting last night and discussing the storm and we decided the only alternative to postponing was to move it up. That way, we figured we could get the boats back here Friday ahead of the weather and then they can either stay in safe harbor here or make it back to their home port. We gave them that option and also the option of withdrawing.

We want to stay in Cottage Grove. Ninety-nine percent of our customers come from the western side (of U.S. 61). It's not an option to move it to (the eastern) side.

We did have kids driving to school. They don't belong. It's not fair to the younger kids on track and the older kids, ... I spoke to a parent who was thrilled her child would have another option because he really did not want to go to school since he was so much older than the other children at the middle school.

We'd had three tough losses in a row and everybody was down. I think our players said to themselves: 'Our backs are up against the wall and we've got no other option other than just to win, and if we lose another game we're probably out.' So they kind of took it as this last stand, and it was that way every week . . .somehow we found a way to win those last five.

We developed GbX E-series with the high-performance systems designer in mind. Now, designers can scale their existing backplane platforms to much higher data rates using a drop-in replacement module without re-spinning their backplane design. This option represents a cost savings and quicker time-to-market for our customers.

We develop and own these properties for several years, then sell them. One option is to sell this, most likely, to a converter. But in some situations, Post makes the decision to convert.

What we might see happen is an increase in leasing, which was not an option for private use in the early 1990s recession, where people can get out of a car and into another one for the same, if not less, monthly payment,

We rate all Japanese funds as a nine or 10 out of 10 on the risk scale, but for those investors looking for a less volatile option than the Legg Mason fund, JP Morgan is our fund manager of choice.

We're asking them to take that option out of their report.

When in doubt, it may be worth going with the cheapest plan option available until you have further time to evaluate because you can make your switch in the November enrollment period.

The people of Hong Kong have no other option but to show solidarity by joining together, by taking part in peaceful assembly to voice our aspirations, to let the Beijing leaders know we really want and deserve democracy.

The process is in trouble, we cannot continue this way, ... One option is simply for us to remove ourselves from the process.

We're here to promote the entrepreneurial endeavors of students. We want to encourage the broadest thinking about starting your own business. We do it to encourage college students to consider the option of becoming entrepreneurs.

This provides a second option for our students.

We very clearly laid out where the core manufacturing sites are. If you're not included in that option there are three options - sale, wind down, or relocation.

The only option left is to continue our struggle in the National Assembly. We will push for our complaints to be dealt with, addressed properly,

The only option left is to continue our struggle in the National Assembly because we want to avoid violence and prevent confrontation,

The only option Janie has, if you do not help her out today, is to leave this church. She cannot leave the ministry.

The only option for these companies is to merge and seek yet more job cuts and savings.

The only option a driver has is to literally not do it. If he (crew chief) says, 'Pit,' you drive by and say, 'I didn't hear you, what'd you say, come back.' And that's happened, and sometimes you wish you hadn't done that. Other times it works out.