(169 quotes found)
“One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
Lee Simonson
“When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.”
Xeni Jardin
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
Coco Chanel
“The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence”
Samuel Johnson
“At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve
“Nothing is inevitable until it happens.”
A. J. P. Taylor
“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are only here because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.”
Bill Bryson
“In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.”
William S. Burroughs
