Quotes About Inevitability

I make no claim to be a philosopher, but this much I have observed: that whenever a thing seems at its zenith, you may be sure its destruction has already started.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

You cannot escape so easily, Dragon. It is not done between us. It will not be done until the end of time.

He will take you back, and he will destroy you. I bring change, Rand said sadly. Not peace, but turmoil. Destruction follows on my heels everywhere. Will there ever be anywhere I do not tear apart? What will be, will be, Rhuarc. I can't change it.

Death came for every man eventually, and seldom where or when he expected.

We all do as we must, Moiraine's voice from the past returned to his memory. As the Pattern decrees. For some there is less freedom than for others. It does not matter whether we choose or are chosen. What must be, must be.

Death comes sooner or later to everyone," the Warder said grimly, "unless they serve the Dark One, and only fools are willing to pay that price.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills.

The stone that never falls will fall to announce his coming. Of the blood, but not raised by the blood, he will come from Rhuidean at dawn, and tie you together with bonds you cannot break. He will take you back, and he will destroy you.

We all do as we must, as the Pattern decrees. For some there is less freedom than for others. It does not matter whether we choose or are chosen. What must be, must be.

Abraza la muerte —murmuró Bukama en un tono que semejaba frío acero, y Lan oyó a otros hombres de las Tierras Fronterizas repetir sus palabras. Él sólo las pensó; con eso bastaba. La muerte llegaba a buscar a todos los hombres antes o después y rara vez lo hacía cuando se la esperaba. Por supuesto, había quien moría en su cama, pero desde la infancia Lan había sabido que ése no sería su caso.

To those few, it is not a matter of if they will taste death, only of whether they'll swallow.

Archetypes cannot be banished or wished away.

Thus, for our purposes, genes aren't about inevitability. Instead they're about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the other factors, biological and otherwise, that fill these pages.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies

An emptiness comes from this combination of over-the-top nonnatural sources of reward and the inevitability of habituation; this is because unnaturally strong explosions of synthetic experience and sensation and pleasure evoke unnaturally strong degrees of habituation.

this cat-and-mouse could not last forever, and he also knew that when you are the mouse you don't have much to say about it to the cat.

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

I suppose she's just dying of living--that's the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later.

All his work, and it hadn't saved anyone, or slowed the moment of their going by a minute.

He began to wish that somehow things could have been rounded off a little better. Of course he knew death was no respecter. People just dropped when they dropped, whether they had rounded things off or not.