“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I wanted to explore the possibility that this could have become 'Planet of the Humans and the Apes' instead of just 'Planet… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it… — Livy Copy Share Image
And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it.… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is… — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I… — Frank James Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
“A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know… — Max Black Copy Share Image
I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable -… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology.… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Inexorable self, carried like the superfluous and tiresome piece of luggage which it is impossible to lose; franked with the customs’ stamp… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
