Unavoidability Quotes

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York: You can run from it, but you can't hide.

Death can come at any time to anyone. Everybody is equal before death.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

You'll see me everywhere, inside, outside. Only place you won't see me is maybe safety.

The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.

There is no suspense in inevitability.