# Quote — Nevil Shute, No Highway

> His agitation was subsiding; already he was becoming aware that he had not got it in him to make these men believe that what he said was true. He had had so much of this in the past; he was accustomed to being right and being disbelieved on vital issues. It was what happened to him; other people could put across their convictions and win credence, but he had never been able to do that. Now it was happening again.

- Author: [Nevil Shute](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute.md)
- Book: [No Highway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway.md)
- Page: 64
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute#No_Highway_(1948)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/his-agitation-was

## More from this book

> "If you're going to make your life in a new country you should go before you're twenty-five. After that you start to get associations, little grooves and anchors, that make it difficult to change."

p. 214 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/if-youre-going.md)

> He was like a little boy let loose in a toy shop, uncertain which of the attractive treasures to pick up first.

p. 270 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/he-was-like.md)

> She did not understand what all that meant, but it was evidently something very near his heart, and so she said, "How splendid!"

p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/she-did-not.md)