Either Or Quotes

You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

Elected officials, when faced with either-or decisions, inevitably choose both.

Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

It's an either/or world now.