Quotes from HMS Ulysses — Alistair MacLean
1922–1987 Scotland
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To all things an end, to every night its dawn; even to the longest night when dawn never comes, there comes at last the dawn.
HMS Ulysses (1955)
Every man is what environment and heredity make him.
HMS Ulysses (1955)
Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing mankind really is
HMS Ulysses (1955)
She plunged down and kept on going down, driving down to the black floor of the Arctic, driven down by the madly spinning screws, the still thundering engines her own executioner.
HMS Ulysses (1955)
Many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.
HMS Ulysses (1955)