John Cale Quotes

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

When it's your time, it is your time.

Even God cannot change the past.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Intimates are predestined.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

As certain as death and taxes.

There is no use arguing. It is only a matter of time before I get my way.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

No one can defy fate.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

And that’s the way it is

Reporters are like blackbirds sitting on a telephone wire. One flies off and they all fly off. One flies back and they all fly back.

Necessity has its own rules

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.