Dependency arguments often come from elites – either aid agencies or governments – and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!
I don’t really have any interest in allowing other people’s kind of idiotic, unnecessary, either bigotry or hatred or whatever derision they have for me, I don’t allow for it to really bother me, because I don’t need it.
You’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
To be a legend, you’ve either got to be dead or excessively old!
If you’ve ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it’s just astounding to see someone manage, more or less well, to do all those things. But on a computer, multitasking is really binary. The task is either in the foreground, or it’s not.
Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.
Don’t underestimate your opponent, but don’t overestimate them, either.
You can either be a quitter, a camper or a climber. I don’t want to quit, and I certainly don’t want to camp.
In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.
If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
As to my followers, I wish no man to follow me who is not sound at the heart in the cause of his country; and either at the head or in the ranks of these, I will always consider it my glory to be found.
There aren’t reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don’t like it. It’s just, it’s either right or wrong, you know?
I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it’s going to disappear completely.
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died – we’re not sure – either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
We either live with intention or exist by default.
I’m not Mother Teresa, but I’m not Charles Manson, either.
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I’d fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It’s still dangerous for me to drive. I’ve driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.
We don’t really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that’s ever happened, including this moment right now.
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of humbug.
I don’t want to make movies for kids, and I don’t want to make movies for adults either.
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
I don’t get recognised in London or at home either – very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.
It’s never over until we’re shaking hands at the net. Then you’ve either won or you’ve lost, and – either way – you look them in the eye and say, ‘Well played, mate.’
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
I don’t smile much, and I never laugh. If you’d been through what I’ve been through, you wouldn’t be smiling, either.
At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn’t a 68-year-old girl, either.
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I’ve had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I’ll never forget either feeling.
I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard – sometimes unbearably hard – and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
We can either be governed by fear – fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, call the press the enemy of the people, tear kids away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border – or we can be governed by our ambitions and our aspirations and our desire to make the most out of all of us. And that’s America at its best.
You either innovate or you become defunct.
For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen… you’re either going to start to fall back off, or you’re gonna start to rise.
In ‘Alpha Protocol,’ right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.
Character and class are character and class. Either you have it or you don’t.
There’s no half-singing in the shower, you’re either a rock star or an opera diva.
Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.
It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
Either you change with the times or you get rolled over.
I think cricket and cinema are two big entities in the country. If you are part of either, you are sorted.
I get a lot of the ideas when I’m resting – either when I’m meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That’s where I get my best ideas, maybe because I’m balancing my body.
I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the ‘Ed Sullivan’ show – all these places we were influenced by.
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Either move or be moved.
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence – or you don’t.
I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.
If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it’s seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they’re seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you’re not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn’t care, either.
Before I went to work for ‘Playboy,’ I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master’s. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl.
