Nevil Shute Quotes
Top 27 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Nevil Shute on Wise Famous Quotes.
Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.
It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.
So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war.
There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.
Men' s souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong tgem, God is well acquainted with what ye do.
When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men.
Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!
To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.
It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback.
You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.
I never was in such a horrid office ... It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?
If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.