#inevitable

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#argument #available #east #good #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

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Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#diplomacy #element #force #inevitable #means

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour. ↗

— Theresa May

#behaviour #crime #inevitable #nothing

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ↗

— Kent McCord

#consideration #courtesy #fan #far #feelings

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

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Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. ↗

— Marc Forne Molne

#fight #human #ill #inevitable #poverty

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. ↗

— Chuck Noll

#coach #enjoyment #frustration #inevitable #life

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#inevitable #left #necessary #russia #turn