Inescapable Quotes

121 quotes by 106 authors

The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at… — Brady Udall
Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that man is an… — Fred Bodsworth
That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite… — Edwin Meese
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble… — Saint Augustine
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light,… — Frederick Buechner
Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. — Rollo May
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while… — E.C. Riegel
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of… — John E. Hines
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility… — Isaiah Berlin
Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying… — Lisa See
We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable. — Robert Heilbroner
It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became a magnet for… — Brian Epstein
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when… — Timothy Keller
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell
Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard… — Arthur Miller
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss,… — Elizabeth Drew
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have… — Franz Kafka

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