My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Maurice Ravel

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Alfred Adler

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Allen Klein

'Looking' was always a niche show for a niche within a niche. It's a gay-themed show, so you're not going to get millions of straight people watching it - that's the inevitability of it.

Andrew Haigh

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.

Brad Feld

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Chuck Jones

There is no suspense in inevitability.

Damon Lindelof

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

Daniel Day-Lewis

People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case for the job.

Deval Patrick

Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.

Evan Bayh

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George Packer

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work.

Gord Downie

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

Holt McCallany

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

J. J. Abrams

I have learned that it is imperative that I make time for my friends, that they demand to be as much a part of the mix as my family and my work, and perhaps more so, because they are not an inevitability.

Jane Green

Solar energy is bound to be in our future. There's a kind of inevitability about it.

Jim Inhofe

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.

Jim Walsh

In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the theory of inevitability perhaps more completely than anybody else. And it solved in the very short term some of their debt problems, but in the medium- and long-term, it left them in real economic trouble.

John Ralston Saul

My wife's biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She's convinced that's the big problem. And my own is sink holes and the inevitability of us all, at some point, collapsing into a sink hole and never being seen again.

Jon Richardson

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

Jonathan Pryce