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Quotations
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 14 likes | |
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 11 likes | |
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 8 likes | |
Man is condemned to be free. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 5 likes | |
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 4 likes | |
No one of intelligence resents the inevitable. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 4 likes | |
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 4 likes | |
What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes | |
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes | |
Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes | |
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. — Italo Calvino, 1923-1985, Italian writer 3 likes | |
It is now, and in this world, that we must live. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 2 likes | |
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. | |
The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice. | |
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be. | |
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. | |
No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever. | |
Morning will come, it has no choice. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist | |
Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physician, yet is dead. |
Quotes in Verse
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
One cannot evade destiny. Το πεπρωμένον φυγείν αδύνατον. 24 likes | |
It is not possible to deceive or ignore the will of Zeus. Ως ουκ έστι Διός κλέψαι νόον ουδέ παρελθείν. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Theogony -613 10 likes |
Proverbs
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 5 likes |