I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional.… — Barbara Copy Share Image
Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
What [Bernie] Sanders has done is he's focused the nation on the fact that these things are not inevitable. They are the… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
We all work for media, we all make mistakes all the time. That's inevitable. What the difference between a responsible journalistic institution… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
It isn't inevitable that we have a globalization which is used by the corporations not to pay taxes. It is not inevitable… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?'… — Jim Nabors Copy Share Image
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come,… — Gail Mazur Copy Share Image
We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion,… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has… — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
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