Inevitability Quotes

“No one bargains with fire and avoids becoming ash.”

— pierre lagrenat

The inevitability of gradualness.

— Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“inevitability carried him forward, and fear held him back.”

— Larry Enright

There are no inevitabilities in history

— Paul Johnson

Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

— John Ashbery

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

— Felix Frankfurter

We see which way the stream of time doth run.

— William Shakespeare

“Life's greatest tragedy is that we grow old too soon and wise too late.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Temptations cannot but come, but woe to those through whom they come.”

— Matthew the Apostle

“Come soon, or come late, if you put power in a man's hand, he going make a fist.”

— Marlon James

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.

— Cassandra Clare

“Breakthroughs rarely happen gradually. They happen when consistency crosses the threshold of inevitability.”

— Itayi Garande

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

— Kate Millett

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable...

— Jeb Corliss

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you,…

— John Green

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their…

— Arundhati Roy

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is…

— Erwin Griswold

“What'd you think would happen when you died? That the prophecy would just be over and we'd all be like, oops, guess…

— H.M. Ward

“Jesus can always reject his father, But he cannot escape his mother's blood. He'll scream and try to wash it off of…

— Ethel Cain

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and…

— Twyla Tharp

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to…

— Robert Rauschenberg

The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which…

— Thomas Keating

“I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless…

— Helen Humphreys

One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest…

— Sam Harris

A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may…

— Ethan Mordden

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful…

— John F. Kennedy

“If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, If only we could…

— Bertolt Brecht

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no…

— Christopher Lasch

I think the Americans are dying to leave Iraq. I was against the war but longed for the fall of Saddam; the…

— Ian Mcewan

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame…

— Arundhati Roy

All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial…

— Barbara Myerhoff

Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America…

— Peggy Noonan

“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us…

— Timothy Snyder

An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq…

— Georgie Anne Geyer

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

“Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there…

— Sandra Scofield