Quotes from Ken Follett

She opened her eyes again once, before she died, and said, "You'll have to win the war without me, kiddo.

cardboard cutout of a husband, a man who cared for her not at all?

Quel giorno la vita e la morte erano state distribuite come carte da gioco.

Despite being some of the most powerful people in the world, the top men in the Kremlin were scared of stepping out of line. Marxism-Leninism answered all questions, so the eventual decision would be infallibly correct. Anyone who had argued for a different outcome was therefore revealed to be culpably out of touch with orthodox thinking. Dimka sometimes wondered if it was this bad in the Vatican.

think he could take

hear him laughing. Perhaps this was the moment to mention Vasili Yenkov. He opened his desk drawer and took out Yenkov's KGB file. He picked up a folder of documents for Khrushchev to sign, then he hesitated. He was

The law makes no decisions. It has no will of its own. It's like a weapon, or a tool: it works for those who pick it up and use it.

Among monks generally there was a long-standing movement for reform of old institutions that had slipped into idleness and self-indulgence.

Don't ask!" said Bevin. "If you ask questions, you'll get answers you don't want.

cheated look, like a eunuch at an orgy: Aunt

O deleite transformou-se em tolerância, depois em impaciência e muitas vezes, mais para o fim, em desprezo.

just as the Monroe Doctrine gave the same rights to the USA in South America.

So court often involved a power struggle between two more or less equal forces, as when a sailor found that the wind was blowing his boat one way while the tide took it another.

A l'évidence, cette décision nécessitait une réflexion longue et attentive. Il la prit sur-le-champ. Il rentrerait en Angleterre.

a budget was like a newspaper gossip column: most of it could be fiction, because no one ever knew the truth.

Americans talked about voters the way Russians talked about Stalin: they had to be obeyed, right or wrong.

the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.

un líder debe tratar a la opinión pública del mismo modo en que un marinero se aprovecha del viento, utilizándolo para impulsar la nave en una dirección u otra, pero nunca intentando ir directamente contra él.

turning white

Lenin también ha anunciado una jornada de ocho horas para los trabajadores y educación universal y gratuita para sus hijos.

glásnost y perestroika, apertura

La moralidad de Tolstói. Hacer el bien tal vez no te haga feliz, pero hacer el mal seguro que te hará desgraciado. Ella

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They're just cattle," Bacon said if anyone complained; but cattle did not sing laments.