Nevil Quotes: top 39 famous quotes about Nevil

Nevil Quotes & Sayings

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It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness. — Nevil Shute

A gift by women, for women. — Nevil Shute

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love. — Nevil Shute

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!' — Jorge Paulo Lemann

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. — Nevil Shute

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries. — Harper Lee

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. — Nevil Shute

Into the world of romance, of make-belief and double brandies! — Nevil Shute

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. — Nevil Shute

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them. — Nevil Shute

To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute

paradox - it takes knowledge to gain knowledge - is — Joshua Foer

Live inside the moment, not taking pictures to save it, cause if the moment is worthwhile, memory's never been faded — Myself

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow. — Nevil Shute

Competition reveals the competent. — Jeffrey Fry

I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly — Nevil Shute

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles! — Nevil Shute

I enjoy being influenced by other writers. — Steve Toltz

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. — Nevil Shute

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. — Nevil Shute

He who does not prepare for death - is more than a common fool - he is a madman. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts. — Peter Guber

Without work men are utterly undone. — Nevil Shute

You felt to look at him that he would be wonderful upon a horse. I — Nevil Shute

The Internet was excellent for confirming one's worst fears about the human race. — Emma Straub

All those cities, all those fields and farms, with nobody, and nothing left alive. Just nothing there. I simply can't take it in. — Nevil Shute

Never go up against a Sicilian when death, is on the line.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..........(thump) — Ned Vizzini

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. — Nevil Shute

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. — Nevil Shute

There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition. — Pierre Dukan

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me. — Nevil Shute

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this. — Nevil Shute

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? — Nevil Shute

Memory is a poet, not an historian. — Marie Howe

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it. — Nevil Shute

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive. — Nevil Shute

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today. — Nevil Shute

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. — Nevil Shute

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. — Nevil Shute