Inevitable Quotes - Page 5

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

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.

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

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

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

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

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.

Happiness too is inevitable.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

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.

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

You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was inevitable.

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.

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