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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

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

Our luck would not run out. That's what i told myself. But they were only words — James Patterson

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like. — Stanley J. Grenz

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year. — George Shearing

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal — Murasaki Shikibu

Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow? — Aubrey Malphurs

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

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? — George Carlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success. — Neil Diamond

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 is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education. — Chris Cagle

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

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them. — Richard Eyre

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

No secrets, no longing, no desperate hoping
Just reach out and grab from a world cracked open. — David Rakoff

Without work men are utterly undone. — Nevil Shute

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

You must give before you can get. — Steve Pavlina

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

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

From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord. — Teresa Giudice

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

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

It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business. — Jerry Yang