Quotes About Unavoidable

#1. You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business.

Christina Engela

#2. Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Dean Koontz

#3. But Engels and Dickens suggested a new twist: that the advance of civilization produced barbarity as an unavoidable waste product, as essential to its metabolism as the gleaming spires and cultivated thought of polite society. The barbarians weren't storming the gates.

Steven Johnson

#4. I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#5. The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.

Adyashanti

#6. The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

Philip Zaleski

#7. I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Edith Sitwell

#8. Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

H.L. Mencken

#9. Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.

Scott Adams

#11. Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.

Paulo Coelho

#12. Finally, faced with horrors both intolerable and unavoidable, I chose madness.

Alan Moore

#13. Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#14. Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

Moshe Sharett

#15. Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

Erik Erikson

#16. Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the 1970s, and I recall the poster. But there are times when war is not only a tragic and unavoidable necessity, but also good for children and other living things.

Dan Savage

#17. New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

Jerry Saltz

#18. Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

Mikhail Tal

#19. You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.

Kay Arthur

#20. Death was a quiet evil, unavoidable like the dark night and defenseless sleep and tearful sorrows. It had hunted her down and slithered close, wanting only to smother every last flicker of life."
- from "My Aquarius

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. Love is a feeling, a real, raw and unscripted emotion so sensationally pure, unable to dull even under the strain of a world against it, strong enough to heal the broken and warm even the coldest of hearts.
Innate.
Unavoidable.
Undeniable

Madeline Sheehan

#22. For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

Hu Shih

#23. I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

Ward Churchill

#24. Everyone's an equal shareholder. Birth shares are inalienable, and death duties are unavoidable. The estate tax is one hundred per cent. In between, you can buy and sell and earn as much as you like.

Ken MacLeod

#25. The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

Sam Harris

#26. Here are a few things I've learned from Albert
1. Any food is fair game until it is actually swallowed by someone else.
2. Take a nap whenever you can.
3. Don't bark unless it's important.
4. Chasing one's tail is sometimes unavoidable.

Lisa Kleypas

#27. I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

Trevor Donovan

#28. Sometimes battles are unavoidable.

Shannon A. Thompson

#29. I am Chun the Unavoidable. Tonight, O Lith, tonight it is two long bright threads for you.

Jack Vance

#30. Life challenges are unavoidable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

Edward Abbey

#32. Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Peter Drucker

#33. At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

T.C. Boyle

#34. I'm always positive when it comes to professional bodybuilding, hell I'm Mr. Olympia for God's sake. If I'm number one in our sport and I have a negative attitude then our sport don't need me and I don't need our sport. There are problems and controversy in all sports. That's really unavoidable.

Ronnie Coleman

#35. It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and a healthy head of hair.

Maureen Howard

#36. Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

Hans Jonas

#37. The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Mardy Grothe

#38. Bibamus, moriendum est.

-Death's unavoidable, let's have a drink!

Mary Stanton

#39. A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

Marcel Proust

#40. Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

Ernest Mandel

#41. All that a good government aims at ... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

James F. Cooper

#42. When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.

Mae Whitman

#43. Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must enter those jaws.

Robin Hobb

#44. He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#45. I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.

Michael Longley

#46. Though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it

Herman Melville

#47. The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

George Orwell

#48. A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#49. I find myself agreeing with Goethe, who when told he too worked excessively, replied that he had all eternity to rest. Eternity is unavoidable, but until it embraces me, I shall keep myself fully consumed with living.

Marc Olden

#50. In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

Gautama Buddha

#51. I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Henry David Thoreau

#52. Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go.

Johnny Depp

#53. I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

Jose Padilha

#54. And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.

Neale Donald Walsch

#55. The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

Omar Bongo

#56. Change is a must, change is unavoidable, change is the centre of every move we make.

Euginia Herlihy

#57. You are a virgin," Layla said, sighing. "Think of it as an unavoidable stage of life, like getting
old and toothless and having to drink soup. Unfortunately, men seem to think that women are like new
wine, good only before being uncorked.

Eloisa James

#58. Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Noah Levine

#59. Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond the understanding and control of a helpless humanity.

Yuval Noah Harari

#60. Don't disappear. Become unavoidable. XOXO GOSSIP GIRL

Dan Humphrey

#61. Control is an unavoidable feature of human relationships; all that actually varies is the subtlety of the system of reinforcement.

Alfie Kohn

#62. I'm afraid sometimes certain individual cases of defaults are unavoidable. What we should do is to step up monitoring, properly handle relevant matters, and ensure there is no regional and systemic financial risk.

Li Keqiang

#63. The unavoidable conclusion that, precisely because God and creation are ontologically distinct in the manner of the absolute and the contingent, they are morally indiscerptible.
(from Radical Orthodoxy 3.1 (2015): 1-17)

David Bentley Hart

#64. Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

Marguerite Duras

#65. I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

Matthew Fox

#66. Without an understanding of purpose, misuse is inevitable; abuse unavoidable.

Pedro Okoro

#67. The emotions roused by that most unavoidable of things, food, are astonishing.

Caryll Houselander

#68. To add insult to injury there's a television at the end of the ward. It's unavoidable, and even more unbearable than usual as it's constantly tuned to ITV, so there are adverts. I wonder if hell is like this? I'd definitely prefer lakes of sulphur and at least being able to swim about in them.

Jo Walton

#69. Failure is an unavoidable part of learning new responses.

Stefan Szczelkun

#70. But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.

Meg Cabot

#71. Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.

William Lashner

#72. How must he prove himself? What was it they wished to know of him? And what did he know of himself here where loneliness was an unavoidable element of life, and a man must rely solely on himself?

Margaret Craven

#73. Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them ... but you can change your response to them.

Jami Attenberg

#74. Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

Isabel Allende

#75. Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

Ludwig Von Mises

#76. It was not the job of a litigator to determine facts; it was his job to construct a story from those facts by which a clear moral conclusion would be unavoidable.

Graham Moore

#77. Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,
frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

Jonathan Swift

#78. A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies.

M.F. Moonzajer

#79. Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.

Gerald Lawson Sittser

#80. Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one's own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.

Bertrand Russell

#81. At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding.

Abhijit Naskar

#82. Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

Dirk Benedict

#83. A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

Wole Soyinka

#84. If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.

David Limbaugh

#85. Pain is unavoidable. It comes in many different ways for many different reasons.

R.J. Lewis

#86. Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

George Washington

#87. Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.

Tina Brown

#88. Love isn't some unavoidable destiny, some fate you can't sidestep - It's a choice you make - and keep making - every day of your life.

Julie Johnson

#89. It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#90. Everyone has parents. It's unavoidable.

Katherine Applegate

#91. I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.

Joe Slovo

#92. The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

Tony Hoare

#93. I hate you," I say, the sentiment muffled against his heart, hoping to make it true.
"And I love you," he answers without hesitation, voice resolved and raw as he holds me tighter so I can't break away and react. "A crossroads, my beautiful princess, that was unavoidable - given our situations.

A.G. Howard

#94. In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

Kevin Smith

#95. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

Viktor E. Frankl

#96. Falling in love is like that: you always feel like a dumbass at some point, even if you know it's coming - it's unavoidable.

Kevin Hearne

#97. If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.

Anand Gopal

#98. Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

Imre Lakatos

#99. Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he can turn.

Toni Morrison

#100. The only way to get there was to burn through capitalism, to get through that unavoidable stage as fast as possible.

Ken MacLeod