A Quote by Rex Stout

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Rex Stout

Quote Topics

Between Choose Distasteful Intolerable Latter Merely Must

Quote Author

Rex Stout
American - Writer
December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

Rene Thom

I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.

John Keats

Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?

Arthur Nersesian

Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

Hansika Motwani

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.

Sylvia Plath

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

C. Wright Mills

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

Learned Hand

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Eckhart Tolle

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

Sara Sheridan

If it is the choice between a bullet train and a three-wheeler, I will choose the latter as it is the traveling mode of the poor people.

Uddhav Thackeray

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

Geoff Dyer

If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

John Piper

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

Jared Diamond

The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

Swami Vivekananda

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

Thomas Jefferson

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

Susan Sontag

A Quote by Rex Stout

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors