HMS Ulysses Quotes

“...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...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.”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses

“She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted off the entire bows in one shattering detonations. For a second, the lightened fo'c'sle reared high into the air" then it plunged down, deep down, into the shoulder of a rolling sea. 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 executioners.”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses

“To all things an end. To every night a dawn. Even to longest night when dawn never comes, there comes, at last, the dawn.”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses

“Every man is what environment and heredity make him.”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses

“Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing mankind really is…”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses

“He shivered uncontrollably and turned his back on the driving wind. ‘Anyway, I wish to God I had his job,’ he added feelingly. ‘This is worse than winter in Alberta!”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses

“what would be left of it by that time—would be in the Kola”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses

“control”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses