Inexorable Quotes

• It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

  John Paul Jones

  Winning, Law, Risk

  "Should young people take risks while volunteering?" by Sally Higham, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Believe, Positive Thinking

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• Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

  Susan Sontag

  Guilt, Innocence, Logic

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

  H. G. Wells

  Change, Nature, Natural

  HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.54, Monkfish Book Publishing

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• Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, Giving, Doe

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• He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Positive, Thinking

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.591, e-artnow

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• He who will not risk cannot win.

  John Paul Jones

  Winning, Risk, Risk And Failure

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• What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Heart, Dark

  The House of the Seven Gables ch. 11 (1851)

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Good Morning, Optimistic, Night

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.374, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

  Frank James

  Dog, Horse, Feet

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Carpe Diem, Thinking

  In John Golding Cubism (1959) p. 60

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• I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

  Frank James

  Years, Perfect, Twenties

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• Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wisdom, Men, President

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• One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.

  Stefan Zweig

  Book, Fate, Order

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.126, Pushkin Press

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• The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

  Scott Hahn

  Law, Gravity, Feels

  Scott Hahn (2007). “Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith”, p.9, Image

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• God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Compliment, Tragic, Paid

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• ... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Suffering, Lessons, Way

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

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• A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting, Animal, Facts

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Incredibles, Should, Premonition

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• Life is as inexorable as the sea.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Sea, Water, Life Is

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1900). “Studies in romance”

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• It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

  Jack Vance

  Reality, Complaining, Useless

  Jack Vance (2000). “Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight: (previously titled Cugel's Saga)”, p.535, Macmillan

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• The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Real, Night

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.110, Dell

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