“ Happy the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. ”
- Virgil- Copy
- 139
“ It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable. ”
- Emily Watson- Copy
- 2K
“ The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
- 3.6K
“ You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it. ”
- Patricia Fripp- Copy
- 160
“ Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 476
“ What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria — anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. ”
- W.P. Kinsella- Copy
- 71
“ Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 773
“ Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. ”
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin- Copy
- 722
“ Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 1.9K
“ He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Happy is the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. ”
- Virgil- Copy
- 4K
“ Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
- 3.2K
“ There are, in the affairs of men and nations, inexorable tides from which they cannot remain aloof. ”
- Louis L’Amour- Copy
- 229
“ The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Inexorable facts connect our consciousness with this body that we know; and that not merely as a whole, but the parts of it are connected severally with parts of our brain-action. If there is any similar connexion with a spiritual body, it only follows that the spiritual body must die at the same time with the natural one… ”
- William Kingdon Clifford- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A life quenched in an untimely manner is always sad, the life of a young person quenched, whatever the circumstances, troubles us deeply. If that death arose through suicide that sense of loss is compounded inexorably. TS Eliot's evocative words serve to underline that awful sense of loss for the potential that was never allowed to fully blossom, for all that might have been but wasn't to be:. ”
- Mary McAleese- Copy
- 1.3K
“ What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. ”
- Beryl Markham- Copy
- 1K
“ The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. ”
- Octave Mirbeau- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The sense of an entailed disadvantage — the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing… ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
- 927
“ The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives… ”
- Octavio Paz- Copy
- 330
“ I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.9K
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