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Quotes About Inevitability

Waarom zal ik mij moreel gedragen, als ik toch in ieder geval de doodstraf krijg? Iedereen krijgt nou eenmaal de doodstraf en iedereen weet het.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
That which is possible is inevitable.
~ William Carlos Williams
No man of woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
~ William Cullen Bryant
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
~ William Ewart Gladstone
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
~ William Graham Sumner
everything he was looking at was about to change. Change was the destiny of all things, living or not. The best anyone could hope for was to have strong hand in shaping what came next.
~ William Kent Krueger
Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.
~ William Lashner
She will destroy us all. I did not escape, either. She will destroy us all, in time.
~ William March
You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
~ David Carradine
1. Death is inevitable. 2. Our life span is decreasing continuously. 3. Death will come, whether or not we are prepared for it. 4. Human life expectancy is uncertain. 5. There are many causes of death. 6. The human body is fragile and vulnerable.20
~ David Christian
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.
~ David Cronenberg
It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.
~ David Crosby
Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
~ David Dixon
Although history may therefore seem like a series of inevitable events, the actual future is seldom foreseen.
~ David G. Myers
How inevitable, really, were the type of governments we have today, with their particular fusion of territorial sovereignty, intense administration and competitive politics? Was this really the necessary culmination of human history?
~ David Graeber
It seems part of the human condition that while we cannot predict future events, as soon as those events do happen we find it hard to see them as anything but inevitable.
~ David Graeber
A man, being born, is a debt; by his own self he is born to Death
~ David Graeber
Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.
~ David Hackett Fischer
It is well known, that every government must come to a period, and that death is unavoidable to the political as well as to the animal body.
~ David Hume
God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
~ Euripides
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
~ John Calvin
One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
~ Aristotle
Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.
~ Nora Ephron
Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
~ Plato