Inevitable Quotes - Page 9

• All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.

  Milarepa

  Religious, Buddhist, Knowing

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• It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities.' Bravo!

  Medea Benjamin

  Kings, War, Focus

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• 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.

  Michael Scheuer

  Believe, Thinking, Terrorism

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• A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

  Susan Faludi

  Rights, Justice, Feminism

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

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• To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.

  Martin Van Buren

  Patriotic, Government, Debt

  Martin Van Buren (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk”, p.1829, Wildside Press LLC

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• If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

  Dale Carnegie

  Acceptance, Night, Insomnia

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.78, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Puedes aceptar lo inevitable con amargura y resentimiento o con paciencia y gracia. La mera aceptación no es suficiente.

  Paul Brunton

  Aceptación, Gracia, Mayo

  Paul Brunton (1987). "Los cuadernos de Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture", Larson Publication

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• The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

  George C. Marshall

  Acceptance, Civilization, Defeat

  Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, US Army, September 1, 1945.

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• Cuando las instituciones del dinero gobiernan el mundo, quizá sea inevitable que los intereses del dinero prevalezcan sobre los intereses de las personas. Lo que estamos viviendo podría describirse mejor como un caso de colonización de la vida por el dinero. Aceptar esta absurda distorsión de las instituciones y propósitos humanos debería considerarse nada menos que un acto de locura colectiva y suicida.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Guerra, Caída, Lucha

  DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1964). “REMINISCENCES”

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• Ninguna guerra es inevitable hasta que estalla.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Break Out

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• You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Special, Storm

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.866, 谷月社

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• La corrupción y la hipocresía no deberían ser productos inevitables de la democracia, como sin duda lo son hoy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). "Obras Completas"

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• A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

  Bruce Lee

  Army, Men, Bones

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• An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

  George Washington

  Drinking, Hands, Alcohol

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Experience, Events

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• A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Grief, Heart

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• Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

  James Levine

  Cutting, Fate, Reality

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• Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there'.

  Ronald Knox

  Conocimiento, Ciencia, Pensamiento

  "The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 541, October 31, 2009.

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• We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands - that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.

  Steven Weinberg

  Nature, Science, Keys

  "The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics". Book by Nigel Calder, 1977.

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

  Samuel Sonrisas

  Work, Valuable, Labor

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.286

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• Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

  Juan Calvino

  Suffering, Lord, Adopted

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• Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

  J. I. Packer

  Suffering, Want

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.178, Baker Books

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• True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.

  Juan Calvino

  Spiritual, Regret, Father

  "Letters of John Calvin".

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• The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

  Juan Calvino

  Jesus, Blow, Suffering

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