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Quotes About Inevitable

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
~ William Pollard
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
~ Jules Verne
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.
~ Susan Choi
Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise.
~ William Odom
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
~ Jim Harrison
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
~ Samuel E. Morison
The machine captured that old sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does.
~ Ryan North
It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Again, he that feareth pains and crosses in this world, feareth some of those things which some time or other must needs happen in the world.
~ Marcus Aurelius
What pays for all this? Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition.
~ Margaret Atwood
Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat.
~ Margaret Atwood
I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it...
~ Margaret Atwood
Totalitarianisms may crumble from within, as they fail to keep the promises that brought them to power; or they may be attacked from without; or both. There are no sure-fire formulas, since very little in history is inevitable.
~ Margaret Atwood
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
~ Neil Postman
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
~ Vernor Vinge
Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.'Heath nodded slowly. 'But usually only once, Hamish. Usually only once.
~ Nigel Holloway, Second Death
It takes time for people to fall in love with you....but it's inevitable
~ Ian Brown
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
~ Jim Morrison
Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible.
~ Jon Jones
Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.
~ Anna Komnene
ha! They will get to that place soon enough.
~ Anna Quindlen
Here is what I know of love: Love is the gas station and the fuel, the air and the water. You might as well give up on keeping the gas cap screwed on tight, keeping love at bay, staying armored or buttressed, because love will get in. It will wear you down. Love is ruthless, whether you notice this or not....It will win. It always does, at least in the long term...
~ Anne Lamott
death, no matter how often and regularly I am the cause of it.
~ Anne Rice