Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“His customary tactics relied on piling up a heap of accidents until they grew into a clear inevitability – or at least… — Vadim Babenko 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
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and… — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational… — Paul Solman Copy Share Image
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“The traveler was dismayed. "Do you hate me so much that you would run from me?" And the errata responded, her voice… — Chelsea Abdullah Copy Share Image
“You cannot ask fire not to burn, brother. . . and Death is an Inferno. Should it be any other way? Oh.… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner 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
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise.… — Hugh Howey 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
“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it.… — Dale E. Turner Copy Share Image
In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
![“No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the…” quote by Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/leon-trotsky-2558_activity_no-one-revolution-up-to-now-has-brought_475561.jpg)
