Best Inevitability Quotes
105 Inevitability quotes by 97 unique authors
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
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Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only…
— Joyce Johnson
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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability…
— Chester Himes
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If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in…
— Jacques Ellul
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However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human…
— Eric Hoffer
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The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our…
— Molly Ivins
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He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as…
— David Guterson
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Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the inevitability of war…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may in effect have…
— Ethan Mordden
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
— Bill Bailey
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We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe…
— Michael Scheuer
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There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost,…
— Julie Powell
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The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so…
— Jacob M. Appel
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Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could…
— Fritz Stern
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For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of…
— Eric Foner
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By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
— Epictetus
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This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of…
— Joan Didion
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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to…
— Christopher Lasch
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I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the…
— Amanda Lindhout
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And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely…
— Karen Russell
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War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
— Marguerite Duras
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I…
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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