Inevitable Quotes - Page 27

• Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

  James Anthony Froude

  Merit, Sequence, Carelessness

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• If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Fate, Car

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Hierarchy, Division

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• In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

  May Sarton

  Balance, Action, Compromise

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• Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

  Helen Keller

  War, Believe, Fruit

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.141, NYU Press

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• The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Escaping, Ideas, Evil

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• Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Stories, Action, Ends

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Half, Firsts

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

  "My Life for the Poor". Book by Mother Teresa, 1985.

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• Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

  Epictetus

  Death, Evil, Use

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

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• If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

  Diane Ackerman

  Children, Heaven, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.20, Vintage

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• To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spring, Joy, May

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

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• Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

  Blaise Pascal

  War, Evil, Wish

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

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• All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

  Robin Morgan

  Art, Perfect, Form

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

  Robin Morgan

  Tragedy, Actors, Elements

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media

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• When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Degrees, Goes On, Asceticism

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• Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Fate, Effort

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

  Rebecca West

  Feelings, Elements, Done

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• What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Depressing, Mediocrity, Way

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.

  Alan Greenspan

  Self, Size, Imbalance

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• Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

  Jane Fonda

  Competition, Prostitution, Importance

  "Jane: An Intimate Biography of Jane Fonda". Book by Thomas Kiernan, 1970.

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• The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Civilization, White

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• War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Weather, Affair

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• This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Self, Hypocrisy, Moments

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.218, Library of America

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