Top 100 Optional Quotes
#1. Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.
John Replogle
#2. Dad, it's not optional: your daughter needs you to be her hero.
Meg Meeker
#3. The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
Clay Shirky
#4. A mask you ask? Optional I find!
Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#5. Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional - or worse, sometimes even a negative - for women. "She is very ambitious" is not a compliment in our culture.
Sheryl Sandberg
#6. Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.
Andrew Skurka
#7. So what's everyone else doing tonight?" I asked.
"Something with Jack," kate said, smiling coyly. "Clothing is optional.
Kristi Cook
#8. Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional.
Debasish Mridha
#9. In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
Thomas Sowell
#10. When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.
Christine Comaford-Lynch
#11. My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."
Christiane Northrup
#12. Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind.
Behdad Sami
#14. My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
Bram Cohen
#16. Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.
Terry Tempest Williams
#17. As you pass through life pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Anon
Gemma Jackson
#18. Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.
J.R. Rim
#19. People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
Hal Sparks
#20. God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!
C.S. Lewis
#21. Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
Kevin O'Leary
#22. Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required.
Alyson Noel
#23. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.
T.I.
#24. The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.
Shawn Amos
#26. This slice of truth, offered in the final hour, ended up beginning a new chapter of my adulthood, the one in which I realized that age doesn't necessarily bring anything with it, save itself. The rest is optional.
Maggie Nelson
#27. Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
Heather Brewer
#28. Our father presents an optional set of rhythms and responses for us to connect to. As a second home base, he makes it safer to roam. With him as an ally
a love
it is safer, too, to show that we're mad when we're mad at our mother. We can hate and not be abandoned, hate and still love.
Judith Viorst
#30. I guess not. I never felt incomplete or anything, if that's what you're asking. I think fathers must be kind of optional.
Rainbow Rowell
#31. The first step to achieving all your goals is getting out of bed. Coffee and toast are optional.
Peter James West
#32. Struggle is inevitable, Growth is optional.
Sandra Good
#33. Problems are inevitable. Staying in control of your emotions is optional.
Maddy Malhotra
#34. 3/4 cup rolled oats 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon Pinch of sea salt 1/4 cup fresh berries (optional) 1/2 ripe banana, sliced (optional) 2 tablespoons chopped nuts, such as walnuts, pecans, or cashews (optional) 2 tablespoons dried fruit, such as raisins, cranberries, chopped apples, chopped
Alona Pulde
#35. Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
Desmond Tutu
#36. Lafayette, on the other hand, was more of a make-your-own-destiny type of fellow, disobeying orders from the king and abandoning a pregnant girl for an entirely optional adventure.
Sarah Vowell
#37. Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.
Eric Weiner
#38. Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.
Bob Monkhouse
#39. The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.
David Deutsch
#40. In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
Gabrielle Zevin
#41. Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who refused to participate in public affairs: idiotes. It is where we get our word idiot.
Eric Weiner
#42. It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
John Harvey-Jones
#43. Discovery is so important, we won't take a project at Mule if a client won't do it. Research isn't an optional phase of design; it's the keystone under which everything else rests.
Anonymous
#44. Oddly enough you can get married and live happily ever after without spawning. Spawning is optional.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#46. Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.
Lysa TerKeurst
#47. I'm not asking you to come-"
"Thanks." Vol studies herself in the cracked mirror and secures the braid with the tie.
"I'm telling you to come." Kira's mouth hardens. "This is not optional.
Nenia Campbell
#48. I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
Anne Tyler
#49. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.
Mary Cunningham Agee
#50. Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.
Oliver Burkeman
#51. What is a good definition of a disciple of Jesus? Do you agree with the statement, "All disciples are believers, but not all believers are disciples"? Why or why not? Are you a disciple of Jesus? Who is a disciple of Jesus today? Is discipleship optional?
Michael J. Wilkins
#52. You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
David Hockney
#53. Jules: Why are you on the floor?
Emma: I've heard roling out of bed in the morning helps you build up resistance to surprise attacks.
Jules: Oh yeah? What does screaming "holy crap!" do?
Emma: That part's optional.
Cassandra Clare
#54. We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.
Megan Smith
#55. For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel.
John Vockler
#56. Vehicle reservations on Vancouver to Victoria and Nanaimo and Vancouver to the Sunshine Coast routes are optional (but recommended especially for Vancouver to Victoria) and cost an additional C$15 to C$22. There is no
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#57. A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Robert Penn
#58. Chubby chasers don't prove that fat is beautiful. Chubby chasers show us that ugliness is optional.
Dan Oliverio
#59. Any requests on the kind of car?"
"Something with armor?" she said. "Oooh, and headrest DVD. Bonus for surround sound."
"Rocket launchers," Michael said.
"One hot yellow Hummer with optional mass destruction package, coming up.
Rachel Caine
#60. growing old was mandatory but growing up was optional.
Carl A. Sparks
#62. It's the pattern that matters, you see. Not the choice of building materials. Life is information, shaped by natural selection. Carbon's just fashion, nucleic acids mere optional accessories. Electrons can do all that stuff, if they're coded the right way. It's all just pattern.
Peter Watts
#63. The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.
Rene Cassin
#64. I had better come clean now and say that I do not believe that art (all art) and beauty are ever separate, nor do I believe that either art or beauty are optional in a sane society.
Jeanette Winterson
#65. To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.
David Cottrell
#66. Presentation literacy isn't an optional extra for the few. It's a core skill for the twenty-first century.
Chris J. Anderson
#67. Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting ... one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.
Sebastian Horsley
#68. I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.
John Ortberg
#69. Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Remember that you come into this world in the middle of the movie, and you leave in the middle; and so do the people you love. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss.
Louise Hay
#70. Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .
Tony Robbins
#71. Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].
Sylvia Boorstein
#72. Wealth had made rigor optional in America. But everything had changed. In an automated, global economy, kids needed to be driven; then need to know how to adapt, since they would be doing it all their lives. They needed a culture of rigor.
Amanda Ripley
#73. Borrowed from my former superintendent of schools: 'Change is inevitable, growth is optional.
Robert L. Hunton
#74. My favorite part of dreams. Clothing is optional. (V'Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#75. If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
Hans Kung
#76. I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.
Byron Katie
#77. Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
R.C. Sproul
#78. Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!
Barbara Corcoran
#79. From there, it was time for dinner: roaring fires, meat popping on spits, tofu sizzling on skillets ((it's northern California, a vegetarian option is not optional), and a style of eating and drinking that can only be described as quaffing.
Cory Doctorow
#80. I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.
Jonathan Littell
#82. You're too old to be saying to me, as you did recently, that you weren't 'interested in politics'. You're lucky that politics feels optional, something it's safe to ignore. Most people in the world have it forced on them
Hari Kunzru
#83. Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.
Tim Hansel
#85. Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
Ed Viesturs
#86. I'm not saying everything else is unimportant. I'm just saying that I've learned to see everything else as optional.
Beth Moore
#87. Of course, she should have known better than to go out with one of the muscle heads from her gym...It was a shame that a brain was optional equipment on his model, and he had not paid for the upgrade.
Julia Mills
#88. Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional.
Maddy Malhotra
#90. The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about
N. T. Wright
#91. I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.
Rob Reiner
#92. Dad's aren't optional. My dad wasn't optional."
"Because he was there ... But if he wasn't there, your mom would have filled in the gaps. That's what moms do.
Rainbow Rowell
#93. Everything is optional.
Somethings are illegal.
And some things are really gross.
Craig Benzine
#94. She held up her hand. My forgiveness after years of insults will only be given to you if you come out with me tonight. Hooking up with Josh is strictly optional, but encouraged.
Heather Demetrios
#95. All I have to do is wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, Jazz. Everything else is optional.
Barry Lyga
#97. Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
Ted Naifeh
#99. Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.
Robyn Carr
#100. Eww," Jack said, and then giggled. "Yeah, and a Paris Hilton doll that had an optional brain."Aphrodite raised her brow at him. "Don't go all crazy. There are some things even Paris Hilton can't buy.
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