The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
“The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor. — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
“Temptations cannot but come, but woe to those through whom they come.” — Matthew the Apostle Copy Share Image
Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
“Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?' ...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. — Peter Conrad Copy Share Image
No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States.… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it,… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them. — George Packer Copy Share Image
