She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.