Inevitable Quotes - Page 8

• It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

  William Boyd

  Weather, People, True Life

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

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• ...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Imperfection, Shadow

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.642, Random House

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• Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Goal, Understanding

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• You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

  David Levithan

  Complaining, Might, Matter

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.25, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

  Ian Mcewan

  Inevitable Death, Doe

  Ian McEwan, Michael Berkeley (1983). “Or shall we die?: words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley”, Jonathan Cape

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• The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

  W. H. Auden

  Music, Beautiful, Simple

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• It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Laughter, Sound, Alex

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• So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Moving

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.

  Edward Said

  Men, Choices Made, Historical

  Edward W. Said (2007). “The Edward Said Reader”, p.378, Vintage

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• The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

  Arianna Huffington

  Truth, Trying, Way

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• A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels.

  Ross Garnaut

  Change, Humanity, Risk

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• Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

  William Holden

  Uplifting, Age, Want

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• Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

  Clive Bell

  Age, Genius, Worship

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• Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

  Aldous Huxley

  God, Spiritual, Inner Peace

  Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith (2013). “The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.

  Milarepa

  Religious, Buddhist, Knowing

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• It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities.' Bravo!

  Medea Benjamin

  Kings, War, Focus

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• I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

  Michael Scheuer

  Believe, Thinking, Terrorism

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• A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

  Susan Faludi

  Rights, Justice, Feminism

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

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• If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

  Dale Carnegie

  Acceptance, Night, Insomnia

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.78, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

  Paul Brunton

  Acceptance, Grace, May

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture”, Larson Publication

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• The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

  George C. Marshall

  Acceptance, Civilization, Defeat

  Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, US Army, September 1, 1945.

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fall, Fighting

  DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1964). “REMINISCENCES”

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• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Break Out

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