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The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.


Jamaica Kincaid

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JAMAICA KINCAID I don't know why anyone would use the word inevitable, ... It clearly is not inevitable.
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YARA SHAHIDI Progress is inevitable. We can't just freeze everything.
JOE MERRITT Change is inevitable. What is also inevitable is failure for those who refuse to change.
TRAVIS J HEDRICK We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.
DICK THOMPSON Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
A. J. P. TAYLOR Rejection is inevitable. The goal is to minimize it.
KEITH GRAFMAN Inevitable is a strong word.
BOB DIETZ Oblivion is inevitable
JOHN GREEN Painful as it is, sometimes separation is inevitable
SOTONYE ANGA Is it surprising? Absolutely not. It's inevitable.
MIKE MCGUIRE Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willin...
PHILIP K. DICK Convergence is inevitable: The faster it happens, the better.
ASHOK MANSUKHANI Change is inevitable in a democracy.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
MARCUS FABUIS QUINTILIANUS When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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GAYLORD NELSON Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
M KATHLEEN CASEY Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
HINDU SPIRITUAL Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
UNKNOWN Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
ZEN PROVERB Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
ANONYMOUS Death is inevitable passion is eternal
ALLISON VAN DIEPEN After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in...
TERRY EAGLETON It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER It is inevitable that communication will ultimately destroy vernacular.
AKRAM ABU HAMDAN If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil i...
HORACE MANN The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence
SAMUEL JOHNSON All we're doing is delaying the inevitable.
TOWNY ANDERSON It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.
STEVE MARABOLI Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
MAX LUCADE Failing is inevitable, but becoming a failure is a choice.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.
ROBERT C. GALLAGHER Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
ROBERT C. GALLAGHER A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY Change is inevitable, relish or perish
JASPREET SINGH We believe world peace is inevitable.
ANNE PERRY A 10 percent growth rate is inevitable, It's just like the growing process of a baby. Its necessary.
CHEN XINGDONG There are too many factories. It is inevitable that the water is polluted.
LI DEQUAN We are looking at a second round. Every indication is that it is inevitable,
ELLEN JOHNSON In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Change is inevitable in a progressive country, Change is constant.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
COCO CHANEL To fear the inevitable is to be ignorant.
WILLIAM STOBART MITCH I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.
DOUGLAS FEITH Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
ADLAI STEVENSON Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
FELIX FRANKFURTER The mere fact that death is inevitable makes it impossible to avoid it.
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H. R. L. SHEPPARD It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. what may be called a pheno...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
ENYA Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
MARV LEVY Loss is an inevitable part of change.
SHARON WEIL Change is not only likely, it's inevitable
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DAVID CARRADINE Time slips just quickly and pressures is inevitable while trying to meet with dues and goals. Pray n...
JECON B. NADELA There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
ANDREW B. LAW Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.
DARRELL ISSA For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
KAILASH SATYARTHI I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
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CASSANDRA CLARE To truly obey and submit, faith is inevitable.
SUNDAY ADELAJA In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
MARTY RUBIN When a company makes a fundamental change, it is inevitable that some people will leave.
CHERYL YEOH Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.
GIFFORD PINCHOT Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
LAURENCE J. PETER Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
ROGER CRAWFORD Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
CLIVE BELL Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Yaicha runs.

He sits down, tired,
and says to mom,
"I'm sorry you had to see t...
THALIA CHALTAS Something like this is probably inevitable for most journals.
KATRINA KELNER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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