"Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this."

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Source : Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

Nevil Shute

#Silly Quotes #World Quotes #Deserve Quotes

“When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.”
“I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.”
“Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.”
“I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?”
“That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.”
“The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.”

Source : Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.96, Haymarket Books
“Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.”
“If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.”

Source : "Perspectives on Richard Ford". Book by Huey Guagliardo, p. 139, 2010.

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