Inevitable Quotes - Page 20

• Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

  Lee Krasner

  Moving, Men, Technique

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• Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Yoke, Provoking

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 8

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• I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Parents Marriage, Interesting, Married

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• There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautiful land. The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice, for that would be crying "peace, peace, where there is no peace". God's Shalom, peace, involves inevitably righteousness, justice, wholeness, fullness of life, participation in decision-making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Laughter, Real

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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

  Tim Harford

  Economy, Complexes, Happens

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• There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Rights, Dignity Of Work

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• Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Fighting, Giving

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains, each link locked into the one before it, the theorems and functions, one thing making the next inevitable. It's music, hanging there in the middle of space, meaning nothing but itself, and so moving...'

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Moving, Math

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• War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

  Gustave de Molinari

  War, Monopoly, Establishment

  Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.35, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

  Molly Crabapple

  Hurt, Moving, Rejection

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• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
  destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Destiny, What Matters

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

  Theresa May

  Behaviour, Crime, Social

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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