Inevitability Quotes - Page 4

• My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

  Patricia Briggs

  Voice, Sunflower, Sound

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.59, Penguin

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• I don't kill people. Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling. It's possible I've just never been able to well up enough interest in any person to care long enough to end their life. I'd much rather avoid them altogether. Most of them. It's 4 A.M. and the sky is beautiful up and away from this room and this bed and the oppressive inevitability of sleep. I HATE SLEEP. But sleep always comes (that, or madness).

  Jhonen Vásquez

  Beautiful, Hate, Sleep

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• Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Boxing, Knows

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• I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Determination, Struggle, Past

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

  Clive Barker

  Men, Teeth, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Aug 23, 2013

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• The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Numbers, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.605, Vintage

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• I think the Americans are dying to leave Iraq. I was against the war but longed for the fall of Saddam; the decision to go to war clearly was taken long before the matter reached the U.N., given its inevitability. I kept my fingers crossed for the emergence of democracy in Iraq even if that would mean victory for a man whose politics I have little sympathy with.

  Ian Mcewan

  War, Fall, Taken

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• El progreso humano nunca rueda sobre las ruedas de lo inevitable; llega a través de los esfuerzos incansables y el trabajo persistente de individuos dedicados que están dispuestos a ser colaboradores de Dios y sin este duro trabajo el tiempo mismo se convierte en un aliado de las fuerzas primitivas del estancamiento social.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Effort, Progress

  "The Other America". Speech at Grosse Pointe High School, www.gphistorical.org. March 14, 1968.

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• We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

  Bill Bryson

  Doors, Years, Four

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.319, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Es algo inevitable. Cómo nada puede separarlos: ni el egoísmo de ella, ni la maldad de él, ni siquiera la muerte, al final... su amor es su única cualidad redentora.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Amor Es, Maldad, Calidad

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• I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

  Oscar Arias

  Perseverance, War, Party

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I tend to bail out of the joke, I lose commitment in it, I'll give you an example: 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

  Stupid, Commitment, Numbers

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• Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

  David Cronenberg

  Consciousness, Sin, Originals

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• La creencia en la inevitabilidad de la guerra es una profecía autocumplida... Necesitamos una visión alternativa, ver el mundo como uno, como interconectado.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Self, Vision

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• To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Rewards, Privilege, Merit

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• I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.

  Jackson Pollock

  Death, Sleep, Thinking

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• [Ayn] Rand lo acepta cuando apoya el servicio militar obligatorio, aunque sea indirectamente. Además, parte de la premisa de que el Estado debe tener poder policial. No tiene en cuenta la inevitabilidad de que una vez que empiezas con el poder policial vas a tener un Estado policial.

  Murray Bookchin

  Militar, Apoyo, Policía

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• Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

  Douglas Adams

  Una palabra

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens unexpectedly and looks painful. That's how it is in real life, and that's how it should be expressed. I don't glamorize it, nor do I depict it without necessity or inevitability.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Hurt, Real, Unique

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Danza, Sueño, Arte

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• Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Business, Taken

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• Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.

  John Chancellor

  America, People, Innovation

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• La danza es comunicación, por lo que el gran reto es hablar con claridad, belleza e inevitabilidad.

  Martha Graham

  Danza, Comunicación, Baile

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• No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

  León Trotsky

  October Revolution, Growing, Wave

  Fuente: www.marxists.org

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• We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.

  Erwin Griswold

  Death, Believe, Two

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