Inevitable Quotes - Page 8

• That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Littles, Feels, Power To Change

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• Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

  Max Lucado

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

  Winston Churchill

  Math, Feelings, Let It Go

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Delay, Firsts, Logic

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• That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

  Garth Stein

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

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• I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Sacrifice, Issues

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• To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Philosophy, Mean

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• I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Discovery, Years

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• Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

  Tad Williams

  Princess, Hero, Survival

  Tad Williams (2005). “The Stone of Farewell: Book Two of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.45, Penguin

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• The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

  John Green

  Myopia, Invisible, Lays

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.40, Penguin

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• For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Impossible, Seconds

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.1144, Random House

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• Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.

  Anne Carson

  Love You, Self, Issues

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Peace, War, Nuclear

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• So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Moving

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.

  Edward Said

  Men, Choices Made, Historical

  Edward W. Said (2007). “The Edward Said Reader”, p.378, Vintage

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• The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

  Arianna Huffington

  Truth, Trying, Way

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• A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels.

  Ross Garnaut

  Change, Humanity, Risk

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• Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

  William Holden

  Uplifting, Age, Want

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• Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

  Clive Bell

  Age, Genius, Worship

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• "What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Serenity, Secret

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• Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

  Aldous Huxley

  God, Spiritual, Inner Peace

  Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith (2013). “The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Attitude, Character, Responsibility

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• It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?

  George Wells Beadle

  Believe, Science, Self

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• Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are two essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Taken, Two

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• I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

  Thornton Wilder

  Hope, Attitude, Fear

  Thornton Wilder (1987). “The ides of March”, HarperCollins

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