Quotes of Inevitability - somelinesforyou

“ There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised. ”

- David Assael

“ The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ”

- Peter Conrad

“ The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability. ”

- Katharine Butler Hathaway

“ The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will. ”

- David Allman

“ Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. ”

- Gian Carlo Menotti

“ The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. ”

- Jesse Owens

“ If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting term. ”

- Andrew Jackson

“ However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death… ”

- Eric Hoffer
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