#inevitable

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#advantage #build #follow #govern #hand

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempt #brought #catastrophes #course #felt

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #challenge #culture #educational #inevitable

I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba. ↗

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#change #chapter #citizen #come #convinced

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

— Brian Eno

#agressive #declines #impact #inevitable #music

As with anything creative, change is inevitable. ↗

— Enya

#anything #creative #inevitable

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. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#always #beating #brooklyn #come #fight

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