Quotes from Ken Follett

They had paid her the compliment of coming to her door without an invitation, knowing they would be welcomed. They belonged to her, and she to them. They were, she realized, her family.

She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. Now she knew that was all wrong. Cleverness had nothing to do with it, and she had no choice. Love was an earthquake.

The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.

Woodrow Wilson was the first American president ever to leave the country during his term of office.

A secret shared is a secret no more.

I believe that what I do becomes part of me,' she said. 'When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, or cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in.

Arrogance was the vice of good leaders. - Prior Philip

With the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.

Birmingham was a dirty industrial city, and from the plane it had a delicate rose-pink aura of pollution, like the chiffon scarf around the neck of an old prostitute.

Un completo desconocido se me acercó y me dijo: Eres tu... !Cuanto tiempo! Tienes que casarte conmigo antes de que vuelvas a desaparecer. Creí que estaba loco.

I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.

A pesar de las dificultades y frustraciones de hoy y del mañana, aún tengo un sueño

en una guerra civil, la primera víctima era la justicia.

Welsh chapelgoers automatically sang in four-part harmony, and when they were in the mood they could raise the roof. As he joined in, Lloyd felt this was the beating heart of Britain, here in this whitewashed chapel.

Nadie hace jamás nada por gratitud

Dios rompió el molde contigo

Never use your own money when you can spend someone else's.

It's hard to be a woman, she thought. You love your baby with all your heart and soul, and then one day he just leaves.

Winston was an odd mix, Fitz thought: aristocrat and man of the people, a brilliant administrator who could never resist meddling in other people's departments, a charmer who was disliked by most of his political colleagues.

There had to be order. Grigori did not want to go back to the old days, of course. The tsar had given them bread queues, brutal police, and soldiers without boots. But there had to be freedom without chaos.

Galliéni, a crusty old soldier, had been brought out of retirement. He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way.

We're all idealists," said Lord Silverman, smoothing over the conflict like a good host. "That's why we're in politics. People without ideals don't bother. But we have to confront the realities of elections and public opinion.

Sostenemos como certeza manifiesta que todos los hombres fueron creados por igual».

German women have to make hard choices. We're paying for the easy choices German men made fifteen years ago. Men such as my father, who thought Hitler would be good for business, and Heinrich's father, who voted for the Enabling Act. The sins of the fathers are visited on the daughters.