Unavoidable Consequences Quotes

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

The fates will lead you to the future or drag you there.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

We’ve got to accept that we’re going to lose people in this deal. How many, I don’t know. Could be a lot.

We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.

If you were to ask me would I change anything or could I go back to the past and change anything, I really wouldn't.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Facts and events … have been too strong for the Government.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

History won't let go of us. We're pinned to it.

My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

We don’t like to face unpleasant reality. We want our leaders to tell us what we want to hear …. You cannot manipulate reality. Reality will real its ugly head

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

Whatever has happened in your past, it's - you can never deny it. I mean, you can never wash what's happened before in your life out of you.