Quotes About Inevitable

Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do.

The first lesson is that errors of prediction are inevitable because the world is unpredictable. The second is that high subjective confidence is not to be trusted as an indicator of accuracy (low confidence could be more informative).

The reliance on flawed explanations is perhaps inevitable, if the alternative is to give up on understanding our world.

Dani teku kao reka vremena, ka uš?u, ka smrti.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

decided that good scholarship demanded taking the losers' point of view, and that made the revision of claims about historic fact inevitable.

It's true that what can be done will be done. It's inevitable, a law of nature, and neither right nor wrong has much to do with it. The moral argument in the end is just a commentary. It doesn't control the process, or even influence it much.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct.

If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.

The basic causes of change are precisely those that are not subject to conscious control.

What's gonna happen'll happen.

For a bounded, metaphysically veiled, and destined society, enemies are necessary, conflict inevitable, and war likely.

If I accept death as inevitable, I do not struggle against mortality. I struggle as a mortal. All the limitations of finite play are self-limitations.

They do not comprehend where they are going," Kaz said, whispering his words to the wind. I knew he didn't mean a particular place. There were no map coordinates to mark the location. He meant that point in time and space where bullet meets bone, where grown men cry rivers of tears; the point you can never return from, even if you live to be ninety.

Death is the ultimate disappointment.

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

A versatile commodity, death; except for those suffering it.

It was a short journey, and more fateful than any one of them knew. A journey inevitable from the day Francis Crawford was born, and set firm in his stars where already old eyes had distinguished it and younger eyes, also far-seeing, had chosen to ignore and defy it.

One of my favorite definitions of enlightenment comes from a Jesuit priest named Anthony de Mello, who passed away some years ago. Someone asked him to define his experience of enlightenment. He said, "Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable." I love that, because it defines enlightenment not just as a realization, but as an activity. Enlightenment is when everything within us is in cooperation with the flow of life itself, with the inevitable.

Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!

Volvió a mi mente una rima infantil de mi infancia - la rima de los diez soldaditos. Me había fascinado cuando era un niño de dos años - la inexorable mengua - la sensación de lo inevitable. Empecé, en secreto, a coleccionar víctimas...

Nothing is more relentless or as dispassionate as time