You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love. Nevil Shute More Quotes by Nevil Shute More Quotes From Nevil Shute After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life. Nevil Shute happen my-life best life 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 lazy grief god men When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion. Nevil Shute king me serious war
