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Quotes About Optional

In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.
~ Elton John
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
~ Robert Brault
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
~ Thomas Sowell
Pain is mandatory. Suffering is optional.
~ David Handler
Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional.
~ Caroline Myss
But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?
~ Howard Jacobson, J
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
~ Tim Hansel
He looked confused. "Don't all of you carry guns?" "Yes," I said. "But we're prepared to shoot people. Can you shoot someone?" His eyes widened. "God, no! I'm vegan." "Eating them is optional," Gertie said.
~ Jana Deleon
Pain is inevitable," the Dalai Lama continued. "Suffering is optional.
~ David Michie
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
Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.
~ Glennon Doyle Melton
Coffee's a drink that encourages a lot of accessories. Coffee cake, coffee table, coffee table book . . . . Say what you want about alcohol, but not only are there not a lot of optional accessories, alcohol actually helps you get rid of things. Family, home, job, driver's license.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are also optional, at least in theory. Does it really seem like a good idea to make someone's salary so susceptible to customers' whims on a given day - or whether any customers happen to show up at all?
~ Stephen J. Dubner
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?
~ Terry Tempest Williams, Leap
Secular conservatism is like trying to use your pocket handkerchief to slow you down after the main chute has failed. This is why individual heart transformation, not legislation, is fundamental to national reformation. The person and work of Jesus is not optional.
~ Douglas Wilson
Outbreaks are inevitable but pandemics are optional," says Larry Brilliant, the American physician who helped eradicate smallpox forty-five years ago.
~ Fareed Zakaria
Esforzarse es obligatorio. Sufrir es opcional.
~ Robyn Carr
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
Nature always stays permanent in all of its dimensions; whereas, the change is an optional process in various ways, forms, and sizes.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
As your newly crowned queen of Earth, it is my first royal decree that flats are sexy and nails are optional.
~ Alaska
And while everyone has to make a living and show up for family, listening is optional. You have to make a conscious decision to listen harder.
~ Anne Lamott
If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply something that anyone can choose at any time, then I'm concerned that you'll think of evangelism as nothing more than a sales job where the prospect is to be won over to sign on the dotted line by praying a prayer, followed by an assurance that he is the proud owner of salvation.
~ Mark Dever
You refused to believe that I preserved your life in Tal Verrar for reasons of conscience. Now I give you the self-interested motive you previously insisted upon, and you refuse to believe it as well. Are you really that arrogant, that logic is as optional as a fashion accessory for you?
~ Scott Lynch