Nevil Shute Quotes

Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

Nevil Shute

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 17, 1899 - January 12, 1960

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I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.

Jimmy Lai

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Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.

John C. Mather

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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

John Dryden

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Motion is tranquility.

Stirling Moss

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I don't understand why black people feel this undying need to want to be down with white people all the time.

Tony Rock

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Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to lose the nourishment. The size of deserts would increase, along with the frequency and intensity of wildfires.

Michael Specter

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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

Jonathan Kozol

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Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

Dorothy Denning

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Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

Chief Seattle

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It is an Englishman who turns out to be the real villain of 'The Moonstone.' By contrast, the three Indian priests who dedicate their lives to returning the jewel to its proper home in the temple, though they have nothing personal to gain by doing so, are positively heroic.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

Chris Carmack

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I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.

Bridget Hall

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