The Inevitable Quotes

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.

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

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

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

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

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

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

Being disappointed is sometimes an inevitable outcome that no one can control.

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

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.

The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

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

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

Is it inevitable after a successful film that they're going to ask for another one? Yes. Do we want to rush and do it for that reason? No.

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.

There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.

Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"

no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.