Choices
Choices
- Alternatives faced one like knives —Hortense Calisher
- Feel like a piece of flux caught between two magnets —William Diehl
In Diehl’s novel, Hooligans, the two magnets represent the choice between two life-styles.
- Indecisive as a young boy in an ice cream parlor —Ira Berkow discussing George Steinbrenner’s choices of field leaders for Yankees, New York Times/Sports of the Times, September 20, 1986
- I would sooner smarm like a fart-licking spaniel than starve in a world of fat poems —Dylan Thomas
- It [making a choice] seems like a choice between lunacy and idiocy, death by fire or by water —Henry James, letter to Thomas Sergeant Perry, November 1, 1863
See Also: IMPOSSIBILITY
- Like a kid jumping off the barn … once they decide to go, they go —John D. MacDonald
- Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather —Julius Charles Hare
- Took all things of life for her to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter —F. Scott Fitzgerald