#inevitable

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#arrange #atom #develop #even #inevitable

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#contemporary #defeat #form #greatest #identity

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. ↗

— William Pollard

#change #creativity #improvement #incentive #inevitable

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#effort #inevitable #mode #pass #which

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable. ↗

— Philip Hone

#inevitable #may #murder #rendered #situation

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#conflict #human #human beings #inevitable #live

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#exercises #faith #inevitable #influence #life

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. ↗

— Clive Bell

#genius #inevitable #sign #uncreative #worship

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#compromise #fall #get #herself #impossible