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Quotes About Inevitable

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
Intimates are predestined.
~ Henry Adams
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
~ Henry Fielding
were history confined to the mechanical repetition of the past, no transformation would ever have occurred. Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.
~ Henry Kissinger
Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.
~ Henry Kissinger
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
~ Henry Miller
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He saw nothing but death or the advance towards death in everything.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Alphonse Karr said a capital thing before the war with Prussia: 'You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Revolution is impossible until it's inevitable.
~ Leon Trotsky
It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.
~ Leonard Cohen
It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.
~ Leonard Cohen
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
~ Leonard Cohen
The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).
~ lewis c s v
Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
~ Robert Bolt
I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.
~ Lincoln Diaz-Balart
If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that leads to sharp and radical changes... it can be a very useful way of thinking.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
You don't even have to move for everything to become horribly complicated, for things to happen, for there to be anger and iitigation, you only have to breathe in this world, the slightest in-breath or out-breath like the minimum swaying inevitable in all light objects hanging by a thread, our veiled and neutral gaze like the inert oscillation of toy airplanes suspended from a ceiling, and that always end up going into battle because of that minimal tremor or pulsation.
~ Javier Marías
The champions of the digital adopt an absurd line of argument (absurd in the sense of Freud's story of the kettle): 1. It is a revolution, an absolute advance. 2. At any rate, we have no choice, the process is irreversible. But it must be one or the other: if it is inevitable, there's no point representing it as an ideal dimension. And if it's destined to win out, there's no point claiming it is best. Any form of irony or offhandedness about one's own ideas is wounding to one's interlocutor.
~ Jean Baudrillard
However, we must not look on this domination of the Virtual as something inevitable. Above all, we must not take the Virtual for a 'reality' (definitely going too far!) and apply the categories of the real and the rational to it.(...)
~ Jean Baudrillard
Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn't fantastic any longer, it's inevitable. The inevitable is what you're doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn't do.
~ Jean Rhys
I thought about the dog and was suddenly very sad; sad for her death, for my death, for all the inevitable dying that comes with change. There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.
~ Jeanette Winterson