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Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days. -- Anson Jones
He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable. -- Katherine Dunn
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable. -- Albert Camus
Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up. -- Mike Hawkins
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. -- Isabel Allende
I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable. -- Matthew Fox
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. -- Marguerite Duras
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. -- Michael Leunig
I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable. -- Jose Padilha
New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable. -- Jerry Saltz
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability. -- Murray Gell-Mann
There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since. -- Raymond E. Feist
Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them. -- Jami Attenberg
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. -- Moshe Sharett
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause. -- Omar Bongo
Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse. -- Tina Brown
I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone. -- Joe Slovo
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. -- E. O. Wilson
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. -- James F. Cooper
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that. -- Nevil Shute
Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW. -- Terry Pratchett
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. -- Hu Shih
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. -- Wole Soyinka
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. -- Colin Powell
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. -- William Safire
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it. -- Peter Singer
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out? -- Neil Marshall
Sometimes battles are unavoidable. -- Shannon A. Thompson
Life challenges are unavoidable. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Guilt is unavoidable for mothers. -- Linda Gray
Your happy destiny is unavoidable. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable. -- Ernest Mandel
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable. -- Dirk Benedict
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. -- Tony Hoare
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable. -- Jermain Defoe
Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable. -- Matthew Fox
Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios. -- Van Jones
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. -- Darren Shan
Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of -- Jenny Holzer
Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable -- Moses
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected. -- Plutarch
She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition. -- Diana Gabaldon
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. -- Benjamin Franklin
Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble. -- Allen W. Wood
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil. -- Lyn Nofziger
Freedom is an unprovable but unavoidable presupposition, not an article of faith. -- Allen W. Wood
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product. -- Twyla Tharp
Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created. -- Noah Levine
The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable. -- Mardy Grothe
I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable. -- Michael Longley
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable. -- Alan Hirsch
The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe. -- Jason Mraz
Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. -- Harry Frankfurt
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them. -- Kay Arthur
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament. -- Wole Soyinka
An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy -- Machiavelli
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development -- Tony Juniper
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. -- Gary Gilmore
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades -- Nicholas Stern
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. -- Edith Sitwell
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. -- Henry Taylor
Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless -- Ayumi Hamasaki
It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does. -- Agnes Moorehead
The only thing that's unavoidable is death. The only issue is, will you avoid living just to stay alive. -- Kaia Michaelis
Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it. -- Paulo Coelho
Life challenges are unavoidable. We only need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. -- Eamon Duffy
Challenges are unavoidable, yet unpredictable! ...but the good news is "every challenge is overcome-able". You are an over-comer. Believe and overcome! -- Israelmore Ayivor
It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust. -- David Novak
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone. -- Ellen Hopkins
Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy. -- Viktor E. Frankl
If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime. -- Imre Lakatos
I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, its something that can work for you - especially in the audition room. -- Trevor Donovan
I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room. -- Trevor Donovan
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable. -- Henry David Thoreau
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom. -- Gautama Buddha
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient. -- Edward Abbey
Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel. -- Ron Howard
There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting. -- Paulo Coelho
No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don't begin you can't get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams. -- Rosmarie Waldrop
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy. -- Erik Erikson
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. -- Milarepa
Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one. -- Dallas Willard
Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal. -- Susan Wiggs
Regret is"¦ an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today. -- Gerald Lawson Sittser
...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. -- George Orwell
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. -- Ernest Hemingway
Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'ï¿½d all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. - Jacob Black -- Stephenie Meyer
I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war. -- Mike Hoffman
In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life. -- Kevin Smith
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities. -- Hans Jonas
The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap. -- Guy Kawasaki
The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression. -- Ludwig von Mises
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure. -- Marcel Proust
I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy. -- Ward Churchill
Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless. -- Mikhail Tal
It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and a healthy head of hair. -- Maureen Howard
It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless. -- Mikhail Tal
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it. -- Albert Schweitzer
I think that much of our depression, anxiety, and addiction has to do with what John writes about: the soul's need and longing for transcendence. This need is instinctual and unavoidable. -- Mirabai Starr
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Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision. -- Paulo Coelho
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy. -- Liam Fox
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations. -- Dean Koontz
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost. -- Richard von Krafft-Ebing
I'm afraid sometimes certain individual cases of defaults are unavoidable. What we should do is to step up monitoring, properly handle relevant matters, and ensure there is no regional and systemic financial risk. -- Li Keqiang
Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy. -- Dan Hill
The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing. -- Jennifer Senior
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable. -- Douglas Adams
The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity. -- Kate Winslet
I'm not a big fan of TV. It's an unavoidable situation being Ozzy Osbourne, people want you to go on chat shows, and I'm not good at it. I don't feel comfortable doing it. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms. -- Sun Tzu
Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company. -- Jonathan Swift

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