Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.
Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
You asked for a loving God: you have one. . . The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
[Death:] The one inexorable thing!
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be. . . I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here. . . I will give thanks.
Life is as inexorable as the sea.
Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
He who will not risk cannot win.
What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.
