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The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard. — Paul Wellstone

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

The Inspiration You Seek
Is Already Within You.
Be Silent And Listen. — Rumi

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

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state. — John Stuart Mill

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

Mankind cannot suffer anywhere without it bringing sorrow to other hearts — Janette Oke

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

The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural. — Mike Huckabee

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 have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. — Thomas Jefferson

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

As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea. — Christine Downing

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

When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful. — Deepak Chopra

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

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

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

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

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

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

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality. — Augusten Burroughs

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

Without work men are utterly undone. — Nevil Shute

Truth never was indebted to a lie. — Edward Young

Like having your own licence to print money. — Roy Thomson

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

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

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

Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits. — Jane Fonda

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