Inevitable Quotes · Page 16

Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.

— John C. Maxwell

Death is inevitable, but it's still the hardest thing to accept.

— Anonymous

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

— Donald Berwick

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

— Mel Brooks

“The blow, inevitable in itself, comes straight from the source without any intermediaries.”

— Leila Aboulela

“Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterward.”

— E.M. Forster

The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.

— Alex Grey

“The story of my life—keeping the inevitable at bay”

— C.J. Roberts

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and…

— Robert Henri

Indiana Jones. I always knew some day you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable.

— Marion Raven

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards…

— Colum McCann

We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely…

— Greg Bear

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently…

— Anonymous

“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.”

— Geraldine Brooks

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

— Terry Eagleton

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness…

— Noah Feldman

[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see…

— Susan B. Anthony

Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information. Ten thousand reflections hide the true gem.…

— John F. Kennedy

The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button.…

— Nikita Khrushchev

Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich.…

— Patrick O'Brian

Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then…

— Ellen Goodman

Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything…

— Hamza Yusuf

The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,…

— Jack London

We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that…

— Paulo Coelho

People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their…

— Michael Lewis

We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less…

— Greg Kramer

It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but…

— Medea Benjamin

“Is any of this real? Dangerous question. Sometimes I don’t know the answer. I doubt myself. I doubt what I think I…

— Octavia E. Butler

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic…

— Suzanne Gordon

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

— Norman Cousins

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

— Mason Cooley

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

— Lee Strobel

I think it is absolutely inevitable that Palestinians will, and have to, have their own state.

— Grant Shapps

“When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.”

— Elizabeth Foss

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

— Felix Frankfurter