Inevitable Quotes:

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

- A. J. P. Taylor

topic: War, Break, Inevitable

Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Paradise, Another Day, Inevitable

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

topic: Change, Jobs, Inevitable

Happiness too is inevitable.

- Albert Camus

topic: Cynicism, Idealism, Inevitable

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

- Albie Sachs

source: Albie Sachs (2011). “The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter”, p.133, Souvenir Press

topic: Revolution, Impossible, Inevitable

Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.

- Alexandra Bracken

topic: Way, Causes, Inevitable

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

- Amelia Barr

topic: Hopeful, Found, Inevitable

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

- Anders Chydenius

source: "Thoughts on the Natural Rights of Servants and Peasants". Book by Anders Chydenius, 1778.

topic: Exercise, Coercion, Inevitable

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Son, Feminist, Inevitable

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

topic: Way, Surprise, Inevitable

A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Encouragement, Opportunity, Inevitable, Noticer

Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.

- Anita Renfroe

topic: Drama, Choices, Inevitable

We believe world peace is inevitable.

- Anne Perry

topic: Believe, World, Inevitable

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

- Anthony de Mello

topic: Enlightenment, Cooperation, Inevitable

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Inevitable, Resent

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

- Barbara Johnson

topic: Pain, Misery, Inevitable, Optional

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Barbara Sher

topic: Change, Inevitable, Inevitable Change

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

- Bell Hooks

topic: Culture, Preoccupation, Inevitable

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Change, Intelligent, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable, Inevitable Change

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

- Bert Murray

topic: Shipping, Used, Inevitable

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

- Bill Ayers

topic: Revolution, Impossible, Inevitable

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

- Bob Lutz

source: "Bob Lutz: The Man Who Revived the Electric Car". Interview with Keith Naughton, www.newsweek.com. December 22, 2007.

topic: Inevitable, Automobile

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

- Bonar Law

topic: War, Inevitable, Humans, Human Wisdom

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

topic: Art, Political, Inevitable, Statesmanship

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

- Charles Wheelan

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

topic: Progress, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable, Inevitable Change

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

- Clive James

topic: Hindsight, Inevitable, Belittle, Biographers

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

- Colleen Hoover

source: Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed: A Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

topic: Common, Inevitable

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

- Darrell Issa

topic: Today, Inevitable, Palestine

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

- David Carradine

topic: Thinking, Rumor, Inevitable

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

- Douglas J. Feith

topic: Thinking, Iraq, Inevitable, Disarmament

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

- Duncan Sheik

topic: Influence, Environment, Inevitable

There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

- Earl Weaver

topic: Stars, League, Inevitable, Cal Ripken

Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.

- Eileen Wilks

source: Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.24, Penguin

topic: Hate, Weather, Inevitable

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

- Enya

topic: Creative, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable, Inevitable Change

The visible becomes inevitable...

- Garth Stein

topic: Inevitable

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

- Gijs de Vries

topic: Technology, Inevitable

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

- Graham Chapman

topic: People, Accepting, Inevitable

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Writing, Film, Inevitable

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

- Henepola Gunaratana

source: Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pain, Suffering, Inevitable

I can see how everything relates to everything else when I think that nothing is merely coincidental. If everything that happens is inevitable, then the world is connected and whole.

- Hideo Kojima

topic: Thinking, World, Inevitable

Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.

- Hugh Howey

topic: One Day, Said, Inevitable

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

- Hugh Mackay

topic: Lovely, Magic, Inevitable

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

- Ian Mcewan

topic: Doe, Inevitable, Inevitable Death

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Change, Today, Inevitable, Society Today, Change Is Inevitable

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

- J. C. Watts

topic: Sarcastic, May, Inevitable

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

- J. William Fulbright

topic: Men, World, Inevitable, Divergence

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Shock, Inevitable

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

- James Anthony Froude

topic: Merit, Inevitable, Carelessness

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

- James St. James

source: James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wish, Praying, Inevitable

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable...

- Jeb Corliss

topic: Inevitable, Inevitability, Completeness, Absolution

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

- Jhene Aiko

topic: Letting Go, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable

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

- Jim Harrison

topic: Inevitable

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

- Joe Haldeman

source: Joe Haldeman (1998). “Forever Peace”, p.142, Penguin

topic: War, Human Nature, Inevitable

Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

- Joel Achenbach

source: "What makes some people so suspicious of the findings of science?" by Joel Achenbach, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2015.

topic: Inevitable, Uncertainty

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

- John Coltrane

topic: Things Change, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable, Inevitable Change

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

- John Pentland Mahaffy

source: "Mahaffy". P. 79. Book by W. B. Stanford and R. B. McDowell, 1971.

topic: Unexpected, Inevitable, Ireland, Funny Irish

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

- Jonathan Ive

topic: Natural, Obvious, Inevitable

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

- Jorge Luis Borges

topic: May, Gaps, Inevitable

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

topic: Decomposition, Form, Inevitable

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

- Joseph J. Ellis

topic: Tasks, Inevitable

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

- Josephine Tey

topic: Unfair, Inevitable

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

- Joy Williams

topic: Inevitable, Irreversible

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

- Lance Morrow

topic: Leader, Inevitable, Exceptional

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Eye, Impossible, Inevitable

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

- Lewis B. Smedes

topic: Forgiveness, Release, Inevitable

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

- Lorenzo Lamas

topic: Inevitable

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

- Majora Carter

topic: Destruction, Bronx, Inevitable

If Livingstone don't keep their discipline the inevitable could happen.

- Mark Hateley

topic: Discipline, Inevitable

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Progress, Inevitable, Humans

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

- Mary Jo Putney

topic: Trying, Should, Inevitable

Change is inevitable, progress is not.

- Max McKeown

topic: Progress, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable

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

- Michael Haneke

topic: Different, Accepting, Inevitable

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

- Michael Hyatt

topic: Way, Stories, Inevitable, Way To Success

Smiling in Heaven isn't required - it's inevitable.

- Mike Bickle

topic: Heaven, Inevitable

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

topic: Fate, Russia, Inevitable

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

- Myles Munroe

topic: Abuse, Purpose, Inevitable

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

- Neil Postman

topic: Technology, Inevitable, Unpredictable

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Littles, Inevitable, Feels

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

- Nicole Kidman

topic: Rights, Violence, Inevitable, Stop Violence Against Women, Against Violence

The Universe is inevitable. The Universe is impossible

- Nima Arkani-Hamed

topic: Impossible, Inevitable, Universe

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

- Oliver Lodge

topic: Adventure, Memorial, Inevitable, Memorial Stone, Headstone

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Love Is, Inevitable

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited ...

- Patricia Moyes

topic: Building, Inevitable, Shrinkage

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

- Raymond Williams

topic: Despair, Inevitable, Radical

Find optimism in the inevitable

- Rem Koolhaas

source: "City on the Gulf: Koolhaas Lays Out a Grand Urban Experiment in Dubai". www.nytimes.com. March 03, 2008.

topic: Optimism, Inevitable

Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

- Richard Stallman

topic: Inevitable, Campaigning

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

- Sam Francis

topic: Artist, Inevitable, Tragic

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

- Samuel Smiles

topic: Inevitable, Valuable, Labor

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Thinking, Inevitable

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

- Terry Eagleton

source: "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

topic: Apathy, Inevitable, Literary Theory

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

- Terry Eagleton

topic: Logic, Inevitable, Internals

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

- Tess Gerritsen

topic: Acceptance, Inevitable, Liberation

Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.

- Theodore Zeldin

topic: Views, Influence, Inevitable

Death and taxes are inevitable.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

topic: Inevitable, Taxes

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

- Tim Harford

topic: Economy, Inevitable

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

- Tony Robbins

topic: Positive, Progress, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

- Walter Annenberg

topic: Adversity, Tests, Inevitable

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.

- Wassily Kandinsky

topic: Joy, Triumph, Inevitable

Our words must seem to be inevitable.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Writing, Our Words, Inevitable

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

- William C. Kirby

topic: War, Believe, Inevitable

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

- William Hague

topic: Mean, Ideas, Inevitable

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

- William Shatner

topic: Believe, I Believe, Inevitable

Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

- William Wordsworth

topic: Years, Yoke, Inevitable

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

- Yehuda Berg

topic: Change, Type, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable, Inevitable Change

There's opposition in Europe to Turkish membership because these are the inevitable fears of energetic, poorer, Muslim outsiders who will come in and work hard and take jobs. There's also a fear that under E.U. rules Turkey might get a disproportionate amount of cohesion funds and agricultural subsidies - although it's quite clear that Europe is changing its rules, and that there will not be very much in the way of net transfers of resources from Europe to Turkey.

- Andrew Mango

topic: Hard Work, Outsiders, Inevitable

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

- Carroll O'Connor

topic: Depression, Made, Inevitable

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

- Duncan Green

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Failing, Floundering, Inevitable, Learning By Doing

As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.

- Jacqui Holland

source: "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Aging, Realizing, Inevitable

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

- Nigel Evans

topic: Stories, Inevitable, Being True

No one is ever as shocked and surprised as when the inevitable occurs.

- Paul Baran

topic: Inevitable, Shocked

If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the prospect of our inevitable demise is to ponder how much more horrendous it would be if we persisted in perpetuity. And yet, if you told me I had X number of days left to live, I would lobby for X plus one.

- Sheldon Solomon

topic: Pondering, Inevitable, Immortal

When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.

- Bryan Lee O'Malley

topic: Looks, Kind, Inevitable, Look At Yourself

Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.

- Cara Santana

source: "Actor and Entrepreneur Cara Santana On being inspired by daily life, overcoming addiction, and taking risks". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Risk, Failing, Inevitable

...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.

- Richard Pipes

topic: Inevitable, Collapse

Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.

- Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

topic: Art, Sorrow, Inevitable

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

- Rosa Luxemburg

topic: Revolution, Impossible, Inevitable

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

- Roy Basler

source: Roy Prentice Basler (1973). “A Touchstone for Greatness: Essays, Addresses, and Occasional Pieces about Abraham Lincoln”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

topic: History, Realizing, Inevitable

If something is inevitable, it will happen

- Herbert Stein

topic: Inevitable, Happens, Ifs

Honour always wins, it is inevitable.

- Ishida Mitsunari

source: "Fictional character: Mitsunari Ishida". "Samurai Warriors" video game, 2004.

topic: Winning, Honor, Inevitable

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

- Charles de Gaulle

source: "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by John H. George and Paul Boller, p. 33, 1990.

topic: Evolution, Communism, Inevitable

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

- Paul Fussell

source: "PUBLIC & PRIVATE; Regrets Only" by Anna Quindlen, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 1991.

topic: War, Inevitable, Ifs

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

source: "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56" edited by James Beasley Simpson, 1957.

topic: Change, Jobs, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable, Inevitable Change

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Inevitable

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Growing Up, Surprise, Inevitable, Terrible Things

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

- Frank Gehry

source: Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

topic: Accepting, Banality, Inevitable

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

source: Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.371, Baen Books

topic: Possible Change, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Defeat, Used, Inevitable

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

- Pearl S. Buck

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

topic: Wise, Chinese, Inevitable, Comprehending

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

- Steven Spielberg

topic: Inevitable, Elusive

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

topic: Should, Inevitable, Surprising

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

- Susan Sontag

topic: Body, Compare, Inevitable

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.175, University of Chicago Press

topic: Evil, Giving, Inevitable

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

topic: Worry, Anxiety, Inevitable

Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.

- Joe Biden

topic: Iraq, Inevitable

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Unemployment, Rising, Inevitable

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inevitable, Difficulty, Optional

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

- John Calvin

topic: Suffering, Chance, Inevitable

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

- John Calvin

topic: Suffering, Lord, Inevitable

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

- George Stillman Hillard

source: George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.94

topic: Selfish, Force, Inevitable, Gravitation

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

- John Cusack

topic: Escaping, Choices, Inevitable

My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

- George Washington

topic: Night, Inevitable

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

source: American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

topic: War, Needs, Inevitable

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

- David Attenborough

source: "David Attenborough: 'I'm an essential evil'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

topic: Mean, Cry, Inevitable

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

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Inevitable, Contemplating, Willing

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Source: www.washingtontimes.com

topic: Sexism, Inevitable, Controlling Women

"How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve.

- John Piper

topic: Suffering, Inevitable, Deserve

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

- Richard Bach

topic: Believe, Way, Inevitable

To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.

- Mary Baker Eddy

source: Mary Baker Eddy (1959). “Christian Science Sentinel”

topic: Blessed, Loved Ones, Inevitable

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

- Toni Collette

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Life Is, Inevitable, Familiar

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

- John Wooden

topic: Self, Evaluation, Inevitable, Self Evaluation

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Decision, Inevitable, Absent Minded

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Events, Literature, Inevitable

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.266, Penguin UK

topic: War, Smart, Inevitable

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

source: Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.410, Routledge

topic: Decomposition, Form, Inevitable

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

- Mel Brooks

source: History of the World: Part I, www.imdb.com. 1981.

topic: Artist, Birth, Inevitable

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Progress, Definitions, Inevitable

Negative effects on the economy were covered up with a flood of liquidity from the Fed. That,plus lax regulation, led to a housing bubble, a consumption boom - but we were living on borrowed money. It was inevitable that there would be a day of reckoning, and it has now come. We will be paying the costs "with interest".

- Joseph Stiglitz

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Negative, Economy, Inevitable

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

- Michael Bloomberg

topic: Progress, Inevitable

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

topic: Inevitable, Streets, Ifs

Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Inevitable Change, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Life Changing, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable, Business Change

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

- Billy Graham

topic: Suffering, Sin, Inevitable, Blinded

That which is possible is inevitable.

- William Carlos Williams

source: William Carlos Williams (1984). “The Doctor Stories”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

topic: Inevitable

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

topic: Money, Inevitable, Turns

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

- Indira Gandhi

source: Source: sangam.org

topic: Inevitable

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

- Salvador de Madariaga

source: Salvador de Madariaga (1937). “Anarchy Or Hierarchy”

topic: Liberty, Inevitable, Inequality

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Suffering, Christianity, Inevitable

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Skills, Inevitable, Know How

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

- J. I. Packer

source: J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.178, Baker Books

topic: Suffering, Want, Inevitable

I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

- Kofi Annan

source: Source: www.accaglobal.com

topic: Thinking, Flow, Inevitable, Globalisation

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.171, Penguin

topic: Disappointment, Used, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

- Buzz Aldrin

source: "A Mission To Mars". Interview with David Levin, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

topic: Thinking, Mars, Inevitable

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

- Eric Schlosser

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Hate, Way, Inevitable

You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was inevitable.

- Noel Coward

source: Noel Coward (1979). “Hay fever. The vortex. Fallen angels. Easy virtue”, Methuen Drama

topic: Nice, Kissing, Inevitable

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

- Euripides

source: Euripides (1973). “Medea and Other Plays”, p.73, Penguin UK

topic: Heart, Arms, Inevitable

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

- Stendhal

source: Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

topic: Boredom, Married, Inevitable