Inevitable Quotes - Page 21

• We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves.
  We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.

  John Brunner

  Running, Powerful, Airplane

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• There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

  Gus Van Sant

  Might, Way, Overcoming

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

  Dustin Clare

  Character, Thinking, Pieces

  "Dustin Clare SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 23, 2012.

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• 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

  War, Believe, Humans

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• So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

  Libba Bray

  Pregnancy, School, Class

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• 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

  Way, Surprise, Catastrophe

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• As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

  Mark Consuelos

  Father, Kids, Eye

  "Mark Consuelos Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, How He Got Involved with the Show, Its Dark Subject Matter and Working on the Asylum Set". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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

  Bill Ayers

  Revolution, Impossible, Happens

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• It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

  Cleveland Abbe

  Long, Youth, Should

  Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”

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• I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

  Helen Clark

  Independent, Thinking, Reality

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• I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

  Peter Dinklage

  Directors, Actors, Kind

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

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• I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Struggle, Hero, Cuba

  "Lincoln Diaz-Balart opts out of 2010" by Josh Kraushaar, www.politico.com. February 11, 2010.

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• Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Democratic Ideals, Boss

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Release, Components

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

  Susan Sontag

  Body, Compare, Seems

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• The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.

  Ray Davies

  Life, Girl, Water

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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• In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.

  Anthony Giddens

  Life, Mean, Self

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• Our words must seem to be inevitable.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, Our Words, Seems

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “Letters”

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• I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Thinking, Mind, Plot

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• I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Thinking, Iraq, Disarmament

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• Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives. Cardiac, endocrine, and immune functions are improved with mindfulness practices. Empathy, compassion, and interpersonal sensivity seem to be improved. People who come to develop the capacity to pay attention in the present moment without grasping on to their inevitable judgments also develop a deeper sense of well-being and what can be considered a form of mental coherence.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Philosophy, Compassion, Practice

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• A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.

  William C. Brown

  Enzymes, Facts, Doe

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• At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Illusion, Ends, Should

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• Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Mean, Elements, Pressure

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• I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

  Nikki Reed

  Loneliness, Moving, Cells

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