Inevitable Quotes - Page 31

• Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Possibility

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• The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Spiritual, Feelings, Essentials

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• No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Gun, America

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• For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable tollon society--a fact that we are still forbidden to recognize. This knowledge concerns every single one of us, and--if disseminated widely enough--should lead to fundamental changes in society; above all, to a halt in the blind escalation of violence.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Years, Fundamentals

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.285, Macmillan

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• Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

  John Ashbery

  Events, Doe, Stink

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

  George Will

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Keys

  George F. Will (1986). “The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Strong, Powerful, War

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• every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

  Thomas Nagel

  Views, Subjectivity, Consciousness

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

  Francois Guizot

  Soul, Doe, Virtue

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• The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor.

  Ezra Heywood

  Competition, Survival, Liberty

  Ezra Hervey Heywood (1985). “The Collected Works of Ezra H. Heywood”

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• Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.360, University of Georgia Press

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• Setbacks and fear are inevitable.  The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

  Blake Mycoskie

  Motivational, Success, Obstacles

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.53, Random House

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• Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

  Jet Black

  Desire, Bebop, Faces

  "Fictional character: Jet Black". "Cowboy Bebop", www.imdb.com. 1998 - 2003.

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• Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.

  Richard Branson

  Tough Times, Spirit, Your Future

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• Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

  Janis Joplin

  Loving Someone, Silence, How You Feel

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• Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

  Mason Cooley

  Next Steps, Unexpected, Originality

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• Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

  Mason Cooley

  Decision, Absent Minded, Seems

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• For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

  Robert Pinsky

  Breathing, Vision, Cadence

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• To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Money, Turns, Millions

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• I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Reflection, Moon, Sky

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liars, Lying, Eye

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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• A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Reading, Delight, Dull

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• The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Loss, Degrees

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.628

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• At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Boredom, Age, Youth

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• Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you
  to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Impossible, Misery

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