Inevitable Quotes - Page 33

• Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God the Creator by which we are supposed to function. If we find them and obey them, success becomes inevitable. That's why I was able to move from rats to 40,000 feet in the air in my own aircraft.

  Myles Munroe

  Moving, Race, Air

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• I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work the same way I did with my juvenile mind - that is, to imagine how we are suffering. To record it being actual and then virtual.

  Tony Burgess

  Giving, Mind, Suffering

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• I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and I wasn't raised in our present culture but it has great pressure that as a young person I never had. Material pressure, social pressure, visual pressure, how you look, and I just try to appeal to young people to think for themselves, to be their own person, and to ask questions and also be very attentive to our planet and our environment.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Negative Words, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “Panchayat Raj”

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• Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Excitement, Habit, Natural

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Believe, Violence

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• There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace!

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Peace, Two, Grace

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• The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a revolution in the way that we consume creative property, which I would call art. It has radically changed the relationship between the artist and the audience, how money changes hands, and how much money changes hands. Music was the first, and books are coming next. The Kindle or some form of electronic book is clearly inevitable, and it will massively reshape how books are sold, who pays for them, and how they're consumed. It is going to be really fascinating.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Art, Book, Hands

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• I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just sort of... it can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it. Eventually I'll retire on some level, eventually no one will want to buy my books or a ticket to see me read, it's inevitable that's going to happe

  David Sedaris

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2014.

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• If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.

  Bill Watterson

  Media, Different, Needs

  Source: mentalfloss.com

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• The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Needs, Care

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's the way and the path of the visual.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Thinking, Media, Hands

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

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• One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

  Salman Rushdie

  Evil, Victory, Study

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

  Eric Schlosser

  Hate, Way, Feels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Class

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Sports, Brother, Growing Up

  Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 2015.

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• I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Age, Usual, Natural

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• The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Sight, People

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• The expansion is inevitable.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Expansion

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• It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word "expert" underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless.

  John Hodgman

  Media, Experts, Television

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity.

  Nicholson Baker

  Stories, Want, Able

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

  Toni Collette

  Life Is, Familiar, Really Happy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Stress, Past

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• Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

  Lucan

  Greatness, Men, Partners

  Lucan (1957). “Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars”

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• "How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve.

  John Piper

  Suffering, Deserve

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