Shute Quotes
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Shute Quotes & Sayings
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The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.
— Paul Wellstone
A gift by women, for women.
— 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
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
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
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
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
— Nevil Shute
