Inevitable Quotes

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

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

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

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

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.