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Quotes About Inevitability

there's so goddamn much history, it just can't help repeating itself.
~ George Alec Effinger
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
~ George Burns
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
~ George Burns
Some things you simply accepted, the way you accepted the sunrise or the winter cold. They called it lupine fatalism, but in reality it was plain common sense.
~ Ilona Andrews
Eventually Victoria will die. She's old. And that didn't sound morbid. Not at all.
~ Ilona Andrews
Coloro che dicono che il mondo andrà sempre così come è andato finora contribuiscono a far sì che l'oggetto della loro predizione si avveri
~ Immanuel Kant
Yet it all seemed inevitable and perhaps it was. Is it fruitless to think about the past and build up coherent pictures of how one's life went wrong?
~ Iris Murdoch
It had occurred, it had happened , and could never in his life be unhappened, never removed, a huge deadly black scar lasting forever.
~ Iris Murdoch
Oh, all right, perhaps it wasn't all your fault, I was just doomed from the start.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps he has realised now that he's trapped here and has to suffer with us and become mortal and die.
~ Iris Murdoch
I just don't know what's going to happen. All I know is that whatever it is it's got to happen. Next week.
~ Iris Murdoch
How had this weird idea been conceived, how had it grown until it seemed inevitable?
~ Iris Murdoch
But he was surrendered, they had surrendered him, into the power of death.
~ Iris Murdoch
All that had seemed impossible, too late, a dream, had suddenly become possible, even natural and inevitable.
~ Iris Murdoch
Come, captain, we had no leadership worthy of the name then, and we faced the cleverest opponent, the heaviest armor, the strongest force of all. Yet we won by the inevitability of history.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ben Estes knew he was going to die and it didn't make him feel any better to know that that was the chance he had lived with all these years.
~ Isaac Asimov
La entropía, pequeña, es una palabra que significa la cantidad de desgaste del Universo. Todo
~ Isaac Asimov
Stored energy had a way of leaking, no matter what was done to stop it. That was another aspect of the all-embracing, irresistible second law of thermodynamics.
~ Isaac Asimov
A slit throat cannot be sewn together again.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sospecho que todo lo ocurrido no es fortuito, sino que corresponde a un destino dibujado antes de mi nacimiento y Esteban García es parte de ese dibujo. Es un trazo tosco y torcido, pero ninguna pincelada es inútil.
~ Isabel Allende
although they knew this was a mere formality. Victor felt relieved: if one lives long enough, circles close.
~ Isabel Allende
Pero ya ves cómo la vida no nos deja en paz; tarde o temprano nos da alcance.
~ Isabel Allende
It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.
~ Isacc Asimov
In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the theory of inevitability perhaps more completely than anybody else. And it solved in the very short term some of their debt problems, but in the medium- and long-term, it left them in real economic trouble.
~ John Ralston Saul