Inevitable Quotes - Page 30

• A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Should Have, Community, Behavior

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

  Dervla Murphy

  Hate, Hatred, Damage

  Dervla Murphy (1995). “Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir”, p.73, The Overlook Press

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• Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Revolution, Impossible, Happens

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• Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Progress

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• A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.

  Margaret Halsey

  Struggle, Fighting, Men

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Weather, Silence, India

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

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• I believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.

  Paula Abdul

  Believe, Inner Beauty, Transformation

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• André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But in “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater's masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. He isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty.

  Manohla Dargis

  Art, Moving, Fighting

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• religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.

  Georgia Harkness

  Worst Enemy, Religion, Needs

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• Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

  Myrtle Reed

  Mean, Destiny, Men

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

  Rosellen Brown

  Sorrow, Way, Pity

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• I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.

  Josephine Tey

  Unfair

  Josephine Tey (2012). “A Shilling for Candles”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Felt

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• Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

  Newt Gingrich

  Change, Jobs, Real

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• I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Disappointment, Real, Book

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• Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change.

  Charles Wheelan

  Progress, Inevitable Change, Change Is Inevitable

  Charles Wheelan (2012). “10 1⁄2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said”, p.112, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Views, Tasks, May

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• Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it.

  Richard Leakey

  Long, Goal, Firsts

  "The Origin of Humankind". Book by Richard Leakey, 1994.

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• We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Sacrifice, Lasts, Driven

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• In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Prayer, Unseen, Recognition

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• Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties. How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see, the words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.

  Bernie Siegel

  Teacher, Love You, Soul

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.142, Random House

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• Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature.

  John Dewey

  Science, Animal, Men

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• The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Government, Hatred

  Writing for the court, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 1962.

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• When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Together, Conflict

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• We believe world peace is inevitable.

  Anne Perry

  Believe, World

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