Inevitable Quotes - Page 29

• Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

  Lee Krasner

  Moving, Men, Technique

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• Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Yoke, Provoking

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 8

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• I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Parents Marriage, Interesting, Married

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• There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautiful land. The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice, for that would be crying "peace, peace, where there is no peace". God's Shalom, peace, involves inevitably righteousness, justice, wholeness, fullness of life, participation in decision-making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Laughter, Real

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

  Tim Harford

  Economy, Complexes, Happens

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• There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Rights, Dignity Of Work

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• Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Fighting, Giving

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains, each link locked into the one before it, the theorems and functions, one thing making the next inevitable. It's music, hanging there in the middle of space, meaning nothing but itself, and so moving...'

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Moving, Math

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• War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

  Gustave de Molinari

  War, Monopoly, Establishment

  Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.35, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

  Molly Crabapple

  Hurt, Moving, Rejection

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• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
  destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Destiny, What Matters

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

  Theresa May

  Behaviour, Crime, Social

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

  May Sarton

  Balance, Action, Compromise

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• Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

  Helen Keller

  War, Believe, Fruit

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.141, NYU Press

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• The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Escaping, Ideas, Evil

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• Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Stories, Action, Ends

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Half, Firsts

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

  "My Life for the Poor". Book by Mother Teresa, 1985.

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• Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

  Epictetus

  Death, Evil, Use

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

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• If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

  Diane Ackerman

  Children, Heaven, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.20, Vintage

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• To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spring, Joy, May

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

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• All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

  Robin Morgan

  Art, Perfect, Form

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

  Robin Morgan

  Tragedy, Actors, Elements

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media

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• When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Degrees, Goes On, Asceticism

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