Choices

Choices

 

1. Alternatives faced one like knives —Hortense Calisher
2. 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.

3. 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
4. I would sooner smarm like a fart-licking spaniel than starve in a world of fat poems —Dylan Thomas
5. 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

6. Like a kid jumping off the barn … once they decide to go, they go —John D. MacDonald
7. Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather —Julius Charles Hare
8. 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

Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.