Inevitability Quotes

I was deeply unsettled by the script (of There Will Be Blood (2007)). For me, that is a sure sign. If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you`ve already taken a step toward it. When I`m drawn to something, I take a resolute step backward, and I ask myself if I can really serve this story as well as it needs to be served. If I don`t think I can do that, no matter how appealing, I will decline. What finally takes over, what took over with this movie, is an illusion of inevitability. I think: Can this really be true? Is this happening to me again? Is there no way to avoid this?

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

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

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.

We have a criminal system that makes mistakes. If you accept that proposition, that means you have to be prepared for the inevitability that some are sentenced to death for crimes they didn`t commit,

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.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don`t believe in inevitability. But I think it`s pretty close to being inevitable.

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.

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire`s arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.