#inevitability

"Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."

"After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was."

"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."

"Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be."