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Optional is latin for 'Be There'. -- Darryl Sutter
A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. -- Chili Davis
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional. -- Walter Dean Myers
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. -- Marcia Angell
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I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. -- John Ortberg
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. -- Bram Cohen
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
You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they're handing out. -- Jai Courtney
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
I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must. -- Kajol
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
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional. -- Stacy Schiff
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today. -- Gary Hamel
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
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
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
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
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
Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. -- Darell Hammond
Reality is not optional. -- Thomas Sowell
Reading is not optional. -- Walter Dean Myers
Personal philosophy: Clothing optional -- Will Ferrell
Struggle is inevitable, Growth is optional. -- Sandra Good
Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional. -- Robyn Carr
Love is essential, gregariousness is optional. -- Susan Cain
Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional. -- Roger Crawford
Change is inevitable. Progress is optional . -- Tony Robbins
Life is painful, suffering is optional. -- Sylvia Boorstein
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. -- Haruki Murakami
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. -- John C. Maxwell
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional -- Barbara Johnson
Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional. -- Kathleen Casey
For scientists, reality is not optional. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Pain is certain, suffering is optional. -- Gautama Buddha
Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional. -- Max Lucado
Change is inevitable. Evolution, however, is optional. -- Tony Robbins
Bleeding isn't optional for most of us. -- Eileen Wilks
Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional. -- John C. Maxwell
Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required. -- Alyson Noel
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. -- Carroll Bryant
Breathing is optional, but I need some air. -- Isaac Marion
Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional. -- Mark Hart
Change is a given; growth, however, is optional. -- Orrin Woodward
Survival is optional. No one has to change. -- W. Edwards Deming
The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! -- James Finn Garner
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. -- Bob Monkhouse
Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional. -- Heather Brewer
Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional. -- John C. Maxwell
Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation. -- J.R. Rim
Even when winnin's illogical, losin's still far from optional -- T.I.
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. -- Roger Crawford
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional. -- Jeff Bezos
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. -- Ed Viesturs
To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional. -- Jack Canfield
Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind. -- Behdad Sami
Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required. -- R. C. Sproul
God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must! -- C. S. Lewis
Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional. -- Sean Stephenson
Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed. -- Richard John Neuhaus
My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional." -- Christiane Northrup
Everything is optional. Somethings are illegal. And some things are really gross. -- Craig Benzine
Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity? -- K.P. Yohannan
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional. -- Clay Shirky
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. -- Desmond Tutu
It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. -- John Harvey-Jones
Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house. -- Barbara Corcoran
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. -- David Hockney
Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must! -- Barbara Corcoran
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. -- Tim Hansel
Suffering is optional. You're gonna have some pain but it doesn't have to make you suffer. -- Jhene Aiko
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. -- Robert Breault
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. -- Robert Breault
To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory. -- David Cottrell
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization. -- Van Jones
Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world -- Kofi Annan
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media. -- Thomas Sowell
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. -- Nathan Sawaya
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
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
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
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
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
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked â?¦ fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff. -- Don Tapscott
Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study. -- Joe Maddon
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself -- Pope Benedict XVI
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
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
Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate. -- Christopher Hitchens
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential. -- Matthieu Ricard
Hebrew word for charity tzedakah, simply means justice and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life. -- Peter Singer
Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life. -- Peter Singer
The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! -- James Finn Garner
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
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
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
I'm not body-shy -- it's hard to grow up in the Summerlands, where clothes are solidly optional, and stay body-shy -- but that doesn't mean I enjoy nudity. Naked people are, by definition, unarmed. -- Mira Grant
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pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health. -- Dalai Lama

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