Inevitable Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Streets, Ifs

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Persistence, Guarantees That, Results

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

  Bell Hooks

  Culture, Preoccupation, Domination

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Past, Anxiety

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.96, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

  Ann Landers

  Courage, Eye, Looks

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• English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Vocabulary, Way, Tongue

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• I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

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• [...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Race, Triumph

  "Shalimar the Clown". Book by Salman Rushdie, books.google.ru. October 23, 2008.

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• One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Army, Action, Truth Is

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• I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time.

  Reif Larsen

  Sunset, Sunrise, Twelve

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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• We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Government, Views, World

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• Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

  Emma Goldman

  Hate, Law, Long

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden." He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. "You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves." He nodded slowly. "I think I like you.

  Jim Butcher

  I Like You, Laughter, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

  Herman E. Daly

  Wise, Country, Real

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• We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

  Jean Vanier

  Struggle, Love Is, Class

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.312, Paulist Press

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• The visible becomes inevitable.

  Garth Stein

  Visible

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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