The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
If you’re going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
We’re always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it’s somewhat inevitable that we’re going to make holograms of people.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
It’s inevitable that tough situations will come up, but it’s how you react that is the challenge.
When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don’t think it’s sad; I think it’s inevitable. I think it’s just human nature.
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.
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
Every time I make a new record, some of my existing fans are going to like it, and some are not. It’s inevitable, and it’s part of the deal. It’s part of the job description.
Each year, I say I’m going to go to school next year. It’s inevitable that I’ll end up getting my education.
Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.
I think it’s inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.
If I hear someone say something, and they’re 100 per cent about it, then it’s almost inevitable that I’ll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.
Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters’ reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.
I grew up a poor kid to a single mom, so as an African-American actor I have a responsibility to hold the mirror up and reflect our stories. I’m living the dream and also escaped the inevitable.
Change is inevitable with the evolution of technology. In the ’70s, we had records. In the ’80s, we had CDs, and now we are living in the digital age. You can say it’s sad or unfortunate, but the reality is you’ve got to roll with the times and the technology.
Change is inevitable, and you can’t stop that change. You say, ‘Wait, stop,’ and it just drives right over you.
This league does teach you that it’s inevitable that there’s constant change, and you always have to continue to embrace change, adapt with change.
We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
People go on exploration; they’re trying to find places that weren’t known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.
Frustration with the trains is inevitable, given the daily difficulties commuters face.
When similar products are on store shelves, price competition is inevitable. Nintendo has been trying to steer clear of that direction and create a market of our own.
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson’s own administration.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it’s tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth, and revise the Eurocentric and Christian tropes that Tolkien’s particular worldview bequeathed.
In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is… everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
Parkinson’s is a slow but inevitable process. It’s hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know ‘Can I or can’t I do this today?’
As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it’s inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you’re probably just as lame in your kids’ eyes.
Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.
A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn’t strike me that way at all.
I don’t think we’re any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it’s fun to write about the inevitable – you’re alive, and you’re going to die.
I’ve been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It’s inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I’ve offended them, and that will be that.
Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.
History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
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.
It became inevitable that television would address life’s mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.
They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.
Aging in Hollywood sucks. There’s always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone’s watching! I’d like to embrace getting older, because it’s kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I’m supposed to look – it’s a work in progress.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
We can’t continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it’s inevitable.
I am not a post-liberal and I do not think that such a return to full 19th-century anticlericalism inevitable or even likely – which is one reason among many that I doubt the bargain many religious conservatives have made with Donald Trump.
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That’s inevitable. Where there’s money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
I get embarrassed saying what I do. If you’re chatting to a cabbie, and they don’t know you’re an actor, I cringe because it’s always coupled with the inevitable, ‘So, what have I seen you in?’ And you’re left reciting your CV.
Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
Many of life’s problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.
