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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

All things in the fulness of time — Colin Channer

I've been saying this for years: There is no longer such a thing as a safe and secure job. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

My biggest 'don't' from the past? Picking my face! — Bethenny Frankel

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others. — Seneca The Younger

We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

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

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

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. — Rick Santelli

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

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential. — Thomas Piketty

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

Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over. [on his idea of Hell] — Adam Sandler

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 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

If your life has no problems, you're not really living it. — Ryan Higa

You'll drive yourself crazy looking for something that's not there. — Eowyn Ivey

Without work men are utterly undone. — Nevil Shute

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

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them. — E.L. Doctorow

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

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