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 to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.
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 …
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.
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.
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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