It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. - Nevil Shute
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
- Nevil Shute
If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time … - Nevil Shute
If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time …
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
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.
Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this. - Nevil Shute
Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
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
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.
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over. - Nevil Shute
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. - Nevil Shute
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness. - Nevil Shute
It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love. - Nevil Shute
You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.
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