#inevitable

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff. ↗

— William McFee

#bluff #choose #collateral #efficiency #fame

…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#death-before-dishonor #in-the-end #inevitable #oaths #the-dead

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#inevitable #life #meet #need #obstacles

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#dramatic #elements #even #got #i

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain. ↗

— Malcolm Lowry

#black #forgetting #i #inevitable #long

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#education #end #getting #go #going

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#development #inevitable #last #moreover #society

Nothing is inevitable until it happens. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#inevitable #nothing #until

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