The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never… — John Green Copy Share Image
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want. — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions. — Joe Peterson Copy Share Image
If you are making smart decisions and doing the right things in the correct order and dedicating yourself to something, the success… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable. — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“I know I shouldn't be doing this. I know I'm poking a wound, not healing it. I know there's no way to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
