Inevitable Quotes - Page 3

• Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wise, Chinese, Comprehending

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.243, Open Road Media

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• Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Contemplating, Willing, Ifs

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• Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fear, Inevitable Death, Atheism

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• The Universe is inevitable. The Universe is impossible

  Nima Arkani-Hamed

  Impossible, Universe

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Tom Wolfe

  Life, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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• Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

  Megan McCafferty

  Growing Up, Might, Intention

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.458, Crown

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• Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Years, America

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• Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Humanity, Risk, Vision

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• Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

  Michael Haneke

  Different, Accepting, Feels

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• Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

  Brian Eno

  Impact, Decline, Shock

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• The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

  Thomas Huxley

  Fall, Humility, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

  Joe Peterson

  Fate, Acceptance, Predictions

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• A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

  Tim O'Brien

  Law, Imagination, Miracle

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “Going After Cacciato”, p.242, Broadway Books

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• Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.

  Ian Rankin

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Ian Rankin (2014). “Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.170, Macmillan

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• Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.

  Milton Friedman

  Change, Real, Lying

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sacrifice, Men, Things In Life

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• Love is random; fear is inevitable.

  Orson Scott Card

  Love Is

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.309, Macmillan

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• Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Persistence, Guarantees That, Results

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• I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.

  Alex Haley

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Preparation

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Mar 31, 2016

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• Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Discovery, Games

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Long, Sovereign

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Beautiful, Reality, Sublime

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.27, Vintage

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• In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

  Bell Hooks

  Culture, Preoccupation, Domination

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• There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.

  Kate Chopin

  Depression, Sorry, Struggle

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