Inevitable Quotes - Page 22

• If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Winning, Balance, Enlightenment

  4 Copy quote

• There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Race

  4 Copy quote

• I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Passion, Successful

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

  John Green

  Writing, Faces, Obsolescence

  4 Copy quote

• Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

  Mike Leigh

  Israel, Events, Century

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

  Juliet Marillier

  Children, Thinking, Style

  7 Copy quote

• Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

  Lorenzo Lamas

  4 Copy quote

• Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

  Alan Paton

  Taught, Expect Nothing, Results

  4 Copy quote

• In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Opportunity, Order, Differences

  10 Copy quote

• No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Resent

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood’s End”, p.240, RosettaBooks

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Loss, Identity, Defeat

  61 Copy quote

• I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.

  Louise Erdrich

  Kids, Fighting, Sunday

  Louise Erdrich (2012). “The Round House: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it.

  Antonin Scalia

  Military, War, Thinking

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.131, Regnery Publishing

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, People, Assuming

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?”, p.16, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

  Irving Kristol

  Strong, Past, Government

  6 Copy quote

• Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.

  Michael Cunningham

  Art, War, Fall

  11 Copy quote

• Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

  Emily Carr

  Flower, Light, Growth

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.103, D & M Publishers

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.

  Martyn

  Jesus, Believe, Son

  7 Copy quote

• Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

  Herbert Gold

  Together, Conformity, Rebellion

  Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.

  H. G. Wells

  Work, Years, Machines

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death and taxes are inevitable.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Taxes

  8 Copy quote

• "My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly faced with choices to do either the right thing (any activity that moves you closer to where and who you want to be) or the easy thing (anything else). In every moment of choice, choose to do the right thing over the easy thing, and your becoming successful is inevitable.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Moving, Successful

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 13, 2012

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Long, Environmental

  4 Copy quote

• We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Taken, Risk, Criminals

  4 Copy quote

• Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Work, Welfare, Source

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.171, The Floating Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source