Quotes from Ken Follett

These Sunday afternoons were the golden moments in a life that was rapidly falling apart. The

excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Archdeacon Peter's face was like stone. He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offense; yet he ignored all the compassion of Christianity, denied its mercy, flagrantly disobeyed its ethic of love, and openly flouted the gentle laws of Jesus.

tennis courts.

En la noche del 25 de noviembre de 1120, el Navío Blanco zarpó rumbo a Inglaterra y se hundió en Barfleur con todos cuantos viajaban a bordo salvo uno… El navío era

luces intermitentes. Se sintió aliviado al llegar al puente Carquinez. Una

había recogido a un europeo en una carretera.

You know politicians', Rosa said. 'They're sensitive as schoolgirls, and more vengeful.

Un giorno un giornalista mi chiese : <>. No. Le cattedrali sono sempre state affollate da turisti. Nel Medioevo non si chiamavano turisti, erano pellegrini, ma viaggiavano per gli stessi motivi: per vedere il mondo e le sue meraviglie, per ampliare i propri orizzonti, per istruirsi e forse per entrare in contatto con qualcosa di miracoloso, soprannaturale, eterno.

She had everything Joseph had ever given her, without the nuisance of having Joseph himself.

A crime is a breach of an important social rule. Solitary animals don't have rules. A bear will trash another bear's cave, steal its food and kill its young. Wolves don't do those things: if they did, they couldn't live in packs.

In dog philosophy it is always better to go somewhere than to be left behind.

Nunca uses tu propio dinero si puedes gastar el de otros.

ÎÈ›i vom accepta pomana È™i îÈ›i mulÈ›umim. – MulÈ›umiÈ›i-i lui Dumnezeu, nu mie, spuse Philip îndat?. Femeia rosti: - MulÈ›umim ??ranilor din ale c?ror dijme aÈ›i luat mâncarea.

Gwenda sat with her back against a hornbeam tree and studied Wulfric and Annet with the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.

The world of power and property required that a man be suspicious, demanding, and insistent.

The roads leading from Lake Balaton to the frontier were littered with their tinny Trabant and Wartburg cars, abandoned without regret.

Grigori besó el billete. Se moría de ganas de marcharse. Era como un sueño

Qué nos ocurrió?

In America in 1961, while the police looked on, white racists could attack civil rights protestors, break their bones, try to burn them to death – and get away with it.

Dac? oamenii spun un lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? e È™i adev?rat.

He stared at her bare body, but she no longer felt embarrassed—his look inflamed her like an intimate caress.

Por desgracia, Jesús se aparecía a los chicos con imaginaciones febriles, no a hombres sobrios y racionales.

desconfiaba de su tendencia a creer que Dios se ocuparía de aquello que él no era capaz de solucionar.