Inevitable Quotes - Page 28

• I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Writing, Routine, Research

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• Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beautiful, People, Gardening

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• Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.

  Aaron Belz

  Communication, Media, Perspective

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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

  Barbra Streisand

  Progress, Definitions

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• To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

  Margaret Deland

  Successful, Self, Cobwebs

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• When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

  George Sand

  Fighting, Effort, Causes

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

  Robert Henri

  Play, Inward, Results

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Communication, Civilization, Tragedy

  Joyce Carol Oates (2006). “Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006”

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• A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Should Have, Community, Behavior

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

  Harriet Martineau

  Love, Lying, Disease

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• hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

  Dervla Murphy

  Hate, Hatred, Damage

  Dervla Murphy (1995). “Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir”, p.73, The Overlook Press

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

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Revolution, Impossible, Happens

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

  Michael Bloomberg

  Progress

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• A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.

  Margaret Halsey

  Struggle, Fighting, Men

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Rivers, Growing, Language

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• to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Weather, Silence, India

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

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• I believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.

  Paula Abdul

  Believe, Inner Beauty, Transformation

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• André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But in “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater's masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. He isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty.

  Manohla Dargis

  Art, Moving, Fighting

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• religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.

  Georgia Harkness

  Worst Enemy, Religion, Needs

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• We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

  Sonia Johnson

  Earth, Littles, Adjusting

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Book, Perfection, Despair

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• Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

  Myrtle Reed

  Mean, Destiny, Men

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

  Rosellen Brown

  Sorrow, Way, Pity

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

  Josephine Tey

  Unfair

  Josephine Tey (2012). “A Shilling for Candles”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.

  Peter Dicken

  Technology, Agents, Enabling

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.85, SAGE

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