Inevitable Quotations

We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

It's almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides.

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.

I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

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.

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.

I've been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It's inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I've offended them, and that will be that.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day's activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it's strange to let things become how they were 500 years ago.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.

As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.

Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.

Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.

World peace cannot be enforced by those who do not have inner peace. World peace is an inevitable result of individual inner peace.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

We are talking about thousands of innocent lives being lost, about almost inevitable casualties among our own forces... and the alienation of moderate Muslim opinion across the world.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.

Significant attacks occur daily without any involvement from terrorists. Protecting networks against everyday attacks will help defend against inevitable attacks by terrorists or enemy states.

(Mobile phones are) a device that's synonymous with the person as opposed to fixed-line phones. It's inevitable that they're going to exploit that.

Of all the content that's been affected by the Internet, news has been the hardest hit, the fastest hit and the first hit. Consolidation is just inevitable here.

Online advertising will serve as a catalyst for change in the traditional ad business. Media integration and the inevitable erosion of traditional markets will be more important than the effects of online ad dollar growth.

People will move to the (Mac-Intel) products at the same rate they move over to the new systems. It will take some time for the transition to happen, but it's inevitable that it will.

Pork is the inevitable feature of the democratic process.

If these protests aren't halted soon, it is inevitable that someone will be killed,

If they disagree with that, no matter what the reason is, it's inevitable that we will be going on strike.

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

I have always been of the opinion that sooner or later the property will have higher and better use and Bay Meadows will go away. That's always been my frame of mind. I've always thought it was inevitable and luckily it's taken much longer than anticipated.

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.

I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document my stunts and pack my message into a bottle. I thought maybe I could be discovered after I'd died, like Van Gogh.

Given the magnitude of the contributions, it is inevitable that some of the funds are not going to be spent as efficiently as possible.

Given the huge nature (of the disaster), it is inevitable there would be areas of failure. There are a lot of areas we can look and say could have been done better. But if we look at the overall dimensions of the thing, we have to cut some people some slack.

Given that English as a second language classes are pretty hard to come by unless you've got money, it's sort of inevitable that children of recent immigrants who don't speak English are a huge fount of information about American culture.

For public universities, it is inevitable that the legislative and executive branch appropriations are going to have to be reassessed every year. There's never an ironclad guarantee.

Further consolidation is inevitable but there's a lot of hype and speculation about how things will play out.

For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'

If the film has a seductive nature at all, it's there to draw the viewer in, but I create the visuals in a way that seems absolutely inevitable to me.

What I see is a stable of salivating legal factories gearing up. Is it prudent or responsible for Congress to wait for the inevitable flood or do what it can to provide sandbags now?

I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

I think it's absolutely essential and inevitable that we are going to reform those programs. How, is another question. There's very little interest, now.