Ineluctable Quotes

#1. The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Rebecca West

#2. You choke my days, I'll choke yours.

Tom Waits

#3. Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.

John B. S. Haldane

#4. Didn't Notai ships usually have long names? Like Ineluctable Ascendancy of Mind Unfolding or The Finite Contains the Infinite Contains the Finite? Both of those ship names were fictional, characters in more or less famous melodramatic entertainments.

Ann Leckie

#5. Maximilien R. Peters! Incorruptible, ineluctable, and indestructable! It's time to start a revolution, baby

Jennifer Donnelly

#6. The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. In Japanese, koi no yokan means the ineluctable feeling you have, upon meeting someone for the first time, that eventually the two of you will fall in love.

Alena Graedon

#8. After years of being content with my virginity, I am now officially 'fast'.

Ruby Dixon

#9. O ineluctable superiority of northernness

Salman Rushdie

#10. There can be no sense of security in your existence when it depends upon outside factors, for the unpredictable changes of reality can never be controlled.

Deepak Chopra

#11. Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Gilbert Ryle

#12. Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

Cinda Williams Chima

#13. Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.

Katherine Rundell

#14. Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

Pope Francis

#16. Paused in the ineluctable presence of the other, and inhaled.

Anne Enright

#17. The Universe did not ask for justification before it came into existence.

Fred Van Lente

#18. Don't. This is the punishment I deserve for defying my fate. It'll be easier if I let go of the guilt and embrace my ineluctable destiny

Shaine Lake

#19. I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

Kelly Reilly

#20. Why are genetic determinants thought to be any more ineluctable, or blame-absolving, than 'environmental' ones?

Richard Dawkins

#21. I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water

T. Boone Pickens

#22. Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

H.G.Wells

#23. What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

John Banville

#24. The phantasmogoric philosophy, ineluctable bride of mediocrity.

Aporva Kala

#25. I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Isabel Allende

#26. I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.

Peter S. Beagle

#27. The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

David James Duncan