If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I grow stronger with every moment. I will be wild. I will be brutal. I will encircle you and conquer you. I… — Rachel Swirsky Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts… — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's… — Leonard Cohen 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
The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Dave Camp, in my view, made tax reform inevitable in the sense that he showed you could broaden the base and lower… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image