Inevitability Quotes - Page 6

• Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

  Cornel West

  Possibility, Constant, Probability

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

  Hugh Howey

  Cells, Years, September 11

  Hugh Howey (2017). “Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.

  Mark Kingwell

  Powerful, Book, Dark

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• We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.

  Judith Viorst

  Depressing, Children, Knowing

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• Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

  John Ashbery

  Events, Doe, Stink

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Survival, Eating, Should

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.614, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

  Sam Keen

  Despair, Hopelessness, Planets

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Moving, Choices

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well.

  Sandra Scofield

  Moving, Character, Destiny

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• The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mind, Negative, Refuse

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• The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

  Arundhati Roy

  Positive, War, Ideas

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.112, South End Press

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• Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dream, Challenges, Looks

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• Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

  Jay Samit

  Benefits

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2015

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• People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

  Dionne Brand

  Believe, Passion, Inevitability Of Death

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.18, Vintage Canada

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• Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Mind

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.13, Rodale

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• The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Reason, Accepting, Dies

  "Family Guy (Road to Europe)". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.

  Christophe Agou

  Heart, Eye, Glowing

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• Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.

  Joyce Johnson

  Struggle, Order, Optimism

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• A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may in effect have been working on a different show from all the others. If all contributors do not share the same vision of the evening, the end product will not evince the harmony of diverse elements-the seeming inevitability of book, score, and staging-of a good musical.

  Ethan Mordden

  Book, Musical, Vision

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• Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.

  Bill Bailey

  Stupid, Three, Littles

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  People, Judging, Vision

  Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.189, Penguin UK

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• There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.

  Julie Powell

  Fighting, Eggs, Atoms

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• Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.

  Fritz Stern

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  Fritz Stern (2007). “Five Germanys I Have Known”, p.10, Macmillan

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• By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

  Epictetus

  Fighting, Limits, Accepting

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• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Heart, Sadness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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