Fait Accompli Quotes

#1. One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

Jeremy Rifkin

#2. I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

Vera Brittain

#3. Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential
with his sense of what he is capable of.

Joseph Brodsky

#4. By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

Ruth Ozeki

#5. My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.

Roger Tory Peterson

#6. As is our enthusiasm, so is our ability.

Debasish Mridha

#7. That's the thing about slippery slopes. Take that first step, and the next thing you know, you've completed a jerk-off hat trick to your bestie.

Lauren Blakely

#8. go? We argued. I told him it was a fait accompli.

Anthony Horowitz

#9. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Mark Twain

#10. Nobody seems to remember you from any of your employers."
"I guess I'm not very memorable

Kenneth Eade

#11. How potent was that word. With.

Margaret Atwood

#12. If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success

Will Smith

#13. What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

J. Oswald Sanders

#15. I have been worried about the future of Mumbai. It is the financial capital, an economic powerhouse that earlier had the highest air traffic, high port traffic, and strong industrial and manufacturing sectors.

Sharad Pawar

#16. Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

Walker Percy

#17. Only six people in the entire Galaxy understood the principle on which the Galaxy was governed, and they knew that once Zaphod Beeblebrox had announced his intention to run as President it was more or less a fait accompli: he was ideal presidency fodder.*

Douglas Adams

#18. Grand telegraphic discovery today ... Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish ... the "timbre" of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Alexander Graham Bell

#19. Two Leilas seemed to be battling it out inside me. The first was outraged that he still considered it a fait accompli that I'd give in to him, and the second ... that slutty bitch was wondering what Vlad looked like naked.

Jeaniene Frost

#20. Don't, amor. Te adoro. I've already lost a son. I'm not going to lose another. You're not alone, Ari. I know it feels that way. But you're not." "How can you love me so much?" "How could I not love you? You're the most beautiful boy in the world.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#21. Everyone is messed up in their own way. The funny part is we all don't want anyone else to know, so we work so hard to hide it.

Shana Norris

#22. If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

Alan Bradley

#23. Whenever something great happens, you're always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

Sarah Dessen