#inevitable

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#conviction #hatreds #inevitable #national #nourish

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#believing #bomb #carry #city #fear

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#adjustment #after #case #close #couple

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

— Michael Haneke

#avoid #course #death #different #feel

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. ↗

— John Green

#inevitable #love #oblivion #pleasure #simple

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

— Walter Annenberg

#continues #during #from time to time #inevitable #life

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. ↗

— Clive Bell

#genius #inevitable #sign #uncreative #worship

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#appeared #asia #been #countries #developing

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas. ↗

— Ron D. Burton

#challenge #change #grow #ideas #improve