Inevitable Quotes

998 Inevitable quotes by 787 unique authors

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must… — Joyce Carol Oates
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's… — Jesse Owens
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. — Quintilian
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that… — William Pollard
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. — Christopher Reeve
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
I believe in taking what happens as inevitable. — William Shatner
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer. — Norma Shearer
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to… — Charles Stanley
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is… — Ben Stein
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. — Gertrude Stein
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. — Adlai E. Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The… — Charles R. Swindoll
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order… — Jesse Ventura
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to… — David Wilkerson
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. — Thomas Wolfe
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and… — Tom Wolfe
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. — Andrew Young
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments. — Loretta Young
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural… — Martin Filler
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways… — Evgeny Morozov
Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They… — Marya Hornbacher

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