Best 178 quotes in «inevitable quotes» category

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

I believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.

If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the prospect of our inevitable demise is to ponder how much more horrendous it would be if we persisted in perpetuity. And yet, if you told me I had X number of days left to live, I would lobby for X plus one.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

Negative effects on the economy were covered up with a flood of liquidity from the Fed. That,plus lax regulation, led to a housing bubble, a consumption boom - but we were living on borrowed money. It was inevitable that there would be a day of reckoning, and it has now come. We will be paying the costs "with interest".

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

Our words must seem to be inevitable.

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

No one is ever as shocked and surprised as when the inevitable occurs.

Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable.  The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.