No kid ever graduated school and said, ‘I want to go into advertising.’ Advertising is almost everyone’s second or third choice. – Jerry Della Femina
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. – James Madison
I trust Canadians to be able to look at the different parties, the different leaders, the plans, the teams, and make a responsible choice. And I’m very, very confident that’s exactly what Canadians are going to do. – Justin Trudeau
My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I’m in and I’ll handle it and I’ll make it work. – Isaiah Thomas
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. – Jesse Helms
First and foremost, I’m an oral storyteller – I’ll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time. – Isobelle Carmody
Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway. – Joyce Meyer
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. – John Adams
The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online. – Jerry Yang
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. – John Dewey
Although we love the idea of choice – our culture almost worships it – we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. – Hugh Mackay
You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid ‘no’ muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it’s our choice. Your ‘no’ muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, ‘I don’t care if that’s what you want. I don’t want that. No.’ – Iyanla Vanzant
My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice – you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you. – Jack Bowman
I envy children who know that they’re going to become doctors, know they’re going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that’s what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything. – Jeremy Irons
There are certain vulnerabilities and insecurities that go along with not being linked to another person in a contractual way, even if it’s an unspoken contract. People in New York manage that pretty well. I prefer choice and desire over convention and limitation. – Jamie Johnson
I’m for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It’s her choice. – Jack Kevorkian
As actors, we’re like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don’t have a choice of options, it’s very hard to define yourself. – Joel Kinnaman
I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don’t have a choice. – Jason Schwartzman
Every decision we make – when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food – is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It’s an environmental and moral choice. – Jane Velez-Mitchell
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria’s economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. – Ibrahim Babangida
I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in. – John Updike
You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I’m not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice. – John Mellencamp
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. – John Forbes Nash, Jr.