Optional Quotes

118 quotes by 102 authors

Breathing is optional, but I need some air. — Isaac Marion
Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues. — Kevin O'Leary
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… — Hal Sparks
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… — Anne Tyler
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. — Desmond Tutu
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… — Eric Weiner
Bleeding isn't optional for most of us. — Eileen Wilks
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. — John C. Maxwell
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… — Terry Tempest Williams
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. — Haruki Murakami
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.… — Jonathan Littell
Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a… — Christopher Hitchens
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… — Peter Singer
[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California… — Jandy Nelson
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… — James Finn Garner
Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required. — Alyson Noel
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… — P. C. Cast
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 ;… — Dalai Lama
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… — Mira Grant
Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional. — Max Lucado

Who Wrote These Optional Quotes

102 authors contributed a total of 118 Optional Quotes, led by these top contributors: