Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
“Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'.” — Eric Ives Copy Share Image
This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is… — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is… — Joyce Johnson 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
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The short story is so much about inevitability and this feeling that things always had to be this one way, and I… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally,… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
I don't kill people. Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling.… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
“. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonement finite and forgetting and whole—but time in… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Inevitability is a comfortable escape for people who don't care for the pain that comes with truth. They convince themselves that they… — T.A. Miles Copy Share Image
[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture;… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted,… — Christophe Agou Copy Share Image
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful… — Robert F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have… — Fritz Stern Copy Share Image
I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts.… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
“The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma. So long as there was a contest between communist and capitalist systems, and… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We dared the impossible, did the undoable, bore the unbearable, not merely once but over and over again. I don't believe in… — Marie Jakober Copy Share Image