Optional Quotes - page 2

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. (Marcia Angell)
Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional. View quote
Robyn Carr
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. View quote
Ted Naifeh
Reading is not optional. View quote
Walter Dean Myers
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional. View quote
Walter Dean Myers
Moving the human rights agenda forward requires the promotion of a social and economic environment conducive to respect for human dignity. It is patent that individuals subjected to violence, coercion and war cannot fully exercise their rights. It is thus important to reaffirm the credo of the Charter of the United Nations that peace is a condition for the enjoyment of all human rights. The human right to peace also has important economic, social and cultural components. Following the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on 5 May 2013, individuals can invoke violations before the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Thus, the right to, inter alia, health, a safe environment, food, water and education has acquired even more resonance in the life of each individual. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
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. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. View quote
Jimmy Carter
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. View quote
Bram Cohen
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. (Desmond Tutu)
More important, Christian community is not something about which we can arbitrarily make decisions - it is not an optional extra. View quote
Alan Hirsch
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. View quote
John C. Maxwell
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. View quote
David Deutsch
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. View quote
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