"Inevitableness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... struck with the inevitableness of this. Yes, she had that effect. You couldn't keep ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... "The story has something of the Greek grandeur, simplicity and inevitableness. The plot is woven with the greatest skill; there is a directness in ...
— The Count's Chauffeur • William Le Queux
... employ unnatural or arbitrary punishments. Even the smallest child has an instinctive idea of justice and resents anything which he regards as unjust. On the other hand, he learns quickly the inevitableness with which pain follows the violation of law, and how certain is the working ...
— Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training • Mosiah Hall
... the production of the carefullest forms of modern fiction. The disgrace and grief resulting from the mere trampling pressure and electric friction of town life, become to the sufferers peculiarly mysterious in their undeservedness, and frightful in their inevitableness. The power of all surroundings over them for evil; the incapacity of their own minds to refuse the pollution, and of their own wills to oppose the weight, of the staggering mass that chokes and crushes them into perdition, brings every law of healthy existence into question with them, and every ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... as you refine his eye and ear; he has remorse and sorrow in his being, coming on the heels of all inconsequent enjoyments. How can one think of him as bad? He is religious; religion is as natural to him as lust and anger, less intense, indeed, but coming with a wide-sweeping inevitableness as peace comes after all tumults and noises. And in Utopia they understand this, or, at least, the samurai do, clearly. They accept Religion as they accept Thirst, as something inseparably in the mysterious rhythms of life. And just as thirst and pride and all desires ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells
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