Nevil Shute Quotes
You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.
Nevil Shute
Quotes to Explore
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The merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
Margaret Mitchell
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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
Walt Whitman
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In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.
Bernard Bailyn
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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
Catherine Deneuve
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The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one.
Nellie Fox
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Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
Evelyn Glennie
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Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.
Haruki Murakami
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
William Golding
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I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
William Goldman
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When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
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I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
Camilo Jose Cela
