Top 100 The Inevitable Quotes
#1. The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.
Ludwig Von Mises
#2. Here's one night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive ... My regular little dress rehearsal ... the day I finally meet Death, the two of us will be old, long-lost friends. Me and Death, separated at birth.
Chuck Palahniuk
#4. Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.
James Cameron
#5. If you want to ask how evil begins, just look to basic human nature. What's good gets bent, and bad is the inevitable result.
Anonymous
#6. Man's greatest excuse to delay the inevitable." "Can you not fucking talk like your auditioning for the role of Confucius?" "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake." Of course he goes and actually quotes Confucius. Fuck me.
Krista Ritchie
#7. Destiny, noun: 1. The inevitable or irresistible course of events. 2. The inescapable future. 3. See also screwed.
Seanan McGuire
#8. Places grow to have meaning in your life from experience, from the process of connecting. The inevitable contemplation of commemorative tattoos follows.
Al Burian
#9. Freedom may come not from being in control of life but rather from a willingness to move with the events of life, to hold on to our memories but let go of the past, to choose, when necessary, the inevitable. We can become free at any time.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#10. The inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy.
Daphne Du Maurier
#11. It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.
Wendy Kaminer
#12. Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
Quentin Crisp
#13. He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.
Chris Matthews
#14. I shrugged and said sadly, 'What? Once we gave them the vote, it went totally out of control.'
'You're a pig, Harry,' Murphy growled.
'But a pig smart enough to bow to the inevitable.
Jim Butcher
#15. Success is not a chance. It is destiny. It is not an option. It is your destination. Remember this. Keep doing it. Insist and persist in order to speed up the inevitable outcome.
Ryan Gavini
#16. The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.
Donna Farhi
#17. It is unutterably boring, the multitudes in progression from innocence to inkling to knowledge to the inevitable apotheosis of desperation.
Catherynne M Valente
#18. Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.
Danielle LaPorte
#19. We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou
#20. Human life was rarely shapely, only intermittently meaningful, its clumsiness the inevitable consequence of the victory of content over form, of what and when over how and why.
Salman Rushdie
#21. Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.
Douglas Fairbanks
#22. Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.
Samuel Chadwick
#24. Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#25. I'd begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all systems over time.
Mark O'Connell
#26. Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
Laurence J. Peter
#27. If Livingstone don't keep their discipline the inevitable could happen.
Mark Hateley
#28. He tightened his grip. I'm not good enough for you, Pidge. That doesn't mean I don't trust you, I'm just bracing for the inevitable.
Jamie McGuire
#29. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave
Awaits alike the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
#30. We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#31. How easy it was to capitalize on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.
Robert Galbraith
#32. You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
Paul Brunton
#33. When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
Barbara Amiel
#34. Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#36. The sooner we accept the inevitable dilemma of not being able to win the approval of everyone we meet, the easier our lives will become.
Richard Carlson
#38. We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.
Tal Ben-Shahar
#39. Perhaps the journey towards epiphany is an unseen, steady process towards understanding. Likened to a combination safe, as you scroll the dial towards the inevitable correct combination you cannot tangibly see your progress.
Chris Matakas
#40. The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.
Alex Grey
#41. We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.
Peter Schiff
#42. I cannot see that keeping the status quo intact would help in any way to solve the problems of inequality or suffering in this world. I would go for taking action towards change instead of accepting the inevitable.
Elina Juusola
#43. I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet ... I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be.
Jillian Lauren
#44. You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!
Kane
#45. We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.
Alain Badiou
#46. That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.
Nicholas Sparks
#47. Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov
#48. The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.
Emanuel Lasker
#49. All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.
Robert Henri
#50. You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#51. ...the intranslatable intonations of a foreigner, the inevitable cross-cultural misunderstandings lurking in tones and glances and assumptions.
Arthur Phillips
#52. The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.
Austin O'Malley
#53. Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.
Colleen Hoover
#54. Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the one whose four ground-rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the motions to the universe.
Henry John Stephen Smith
#55. Feeling the inevitable claim of the this desert, he experienced a desire to throw off his civilized costume, hurl himself upon Josephina, either succumb, or return to Guadalajara, where men could only complain of having too many buttons to button or unbutton...
Warren Eyster
#56. Change is to the caterpillar what the metamorphosis is to the human being. It is the inevitable cycle of life. Without change, there is no life.
Susan Peabody
#57. The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.
Tom Seaver
#58. Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#59. Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.
Murray Rothbard
#61. The dead don't die. Death is something a living person suffers through, once the dead are gone from here. The departed don't know anything about dread, or longing, or the inevitable. They leave that to the survivors.
Scott Kelly
#62. The only thing that serves to distinguish us, outwardly at least, is that Silvers stand tall. Our backs are bent by work and unanswered hope and the inevitable disappointment with our lot in life.
Victoria Aveyard
#63. The inevitable aftermath for being [People Of The Book] is turning into [Worshipers Of The Book].
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#64. YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about.
Terry Pratchett
#65. Destiny is just the inevitable result of choice, from the choices that came before us to the choices we make. They are a river that can only flow in one direction.
Alex London
#66. You look peaceful," he tells her. "Maybe that's what a man feels when he stands before a firing squad. There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall." Morton
Jennie Fields
#67. When are you going to give up and accept the inevitable? Automation and microchips are here to stay.
J. A. Jance
#68. Only remember: I am not the ease, but the end.
I am not to blind you, but to find you.
What you think is the sirens singing to lure you to your doom is only the voice of the inevitable, welcoming you after so long a wait. I was made only for you.
Elizabeth Smart
#69. My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.
Stanislaw Lem
#70. It is never prudent to bury our heads in the sand when in distress or faced with adversity; to place our hands over our eyes in a feeble attempt to hide from the inevitable.
Carlos Wallace
#71. It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.
George Takei
#72. If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents by their young.
Jean Sasson
#73. To the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.
Santha Rama Rau
#74. In the earliest times, which were so susceptible to vague speculation and the inevitable ordering of the universe, there can have existed no division between the poetic and the prosaic. Everything must have been tinged with magic. Thor was not the god of thunder; he was the thunder and the god.
Jorge Luis Borges
#75. Inner peace is accomplished by understanding and accepting the inevitable contradictions of life - the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, and patient.
Richard Carlson
#76. And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
Sanford I. Weill
#77. The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited ...
Patricia Moyes
#78. I think it's because he likes you.'
'Well, that's too bad. I've given up that kind of thing.'
'What kind of thing?'
'Love, dating, the inevitable ensuing heartbreak.
Sydney Salter
#79. This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.
Ian McDonald
#80. But life wasn't a film. Problems didn't disappear and "The End" wasn't emblazoned across a lingering embrace the moment people succumbed to the inevitable and found the right moment to verbalise it. He
Lucy Parker
#81. The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
Geraldine Brooks
#82. Moltke closed upon that rigid phrase, the basis for every major German mistake, the phrase that launched the invasion of Belgium and the submarine war against the United States, the inevitable phrase when military plans dictate policy - and once settled it cannot be altered.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#83. I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.
Sigmund Freud
#84. A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
Baron De Montesquieu
#85. Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
Garrison Keillor
#86. My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.
Peter O'Toole
#87. Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
Tony Snow
#88. The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people.
Adolf Hitler
#89. Life is not about picking out the parts you like and leaving the rest, it's learning to coexist with it all and choosing to see the beauty, the grace, and the hilarity while also experiencing the inevitable disappointment and failure.
Alexis Jones
#91. If you live long enough, you learn time is an illusion created by men who fear death. The clocks and watches worshipped by those who deny the inevitable. There is power in acknowledging we are not the ones in control.
Amber Kizer
#92. Because from my personal experience, Dylan, falling in love with you is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. It's fun as hell, a rush of adrenaline, until the inevitable crash comes where you leave and my heart splatters all over the ground.
Katie Kacvinsky
#93. Love was like a loaded gun. You slid you bullet inside the cold metal chamber as a safeguard for the inevitable day that everything went to shit. At the first sign of trouble, you blew your opponent to pieces, long before their finger found the trigger.
Christina Lee
#94. When bowing to the inevitable, it's best to do so low, and quickly.
Daniel Polansky
#95. Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.
Robin Sharma
#96. Worrying about something you can change is necessary, but worrying about the inevitable is a waste of time.
J.A. George
#97. It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
Thomas Malthus
#98. Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?
Ian McEwan
#99. From the moment we are born, we are
dying. Little by little, with each day that passes, we draw closer to the inevitable.
Jonathan L. Ferrara
#100. As in other tests it was now the moment of decision; she was given a final chance to reverse the inevitable course of destiny - ever does free will move through the gate that binds the past and future.
Don Bradley
