Quotes from Ken Follett

yourself," Mair said.

We call him Jonathan, which means a gift from God.

Dinamarca ha demostrado que una pérdida parcial de independencia, debida a las exigencias de la guerra, no tiene por qué conducir necesariamente a penalidades y pruebas indebidas.

Everything was on TV. Millions of American families sat in front of their sets all weekend. The three networks canceled all their regular programs. The news consisted entirely of stories linked to the assassination, and between bulletins there were documentaries about John F. Kennedy, his life, his family

We've been campaigning for equality, and this is not it. If we fall for this ruse we'll be on the sidelines for another generation!" "It's

Earl Roland had prospered in the last ten years—under Queen Isabella and, later, her son Edward III—and he wanted the world to know it, as rich and powerful men generally did. In

The fact that it was a woman who brought our Lord into the world.

La lección, para unos muchachos como vosotros, es que puede haber más honor en la sumisión y en la obediencia que en una imprudente rebelión.

Sin embargo, Russell dejó muy claro que los bolcheviques eran totalmente antidemocráticos. La dictadura del proletariado era una verdadera dictadura, dijo, pero los gobernantes eran intelectuales de clase media como Lenin y Trotski, que solo permitían la ayuda de los proletarios que estaban de acuerdo con sus opiniones

recuerda por favor que el orgullo excesivo es un pecado corriente, pero que un hombre puede, con la misma facilidad, frustrar la voluntad de Dios por una excesiva humildad.

You know that we English are not all the same, though, don't you?

International politics is like a glass. Aggressive moves by either side pour water in. The overflow is war.

He was right about that. A secret was a weapon. But more than that, the possession of knowledge that others did not share always filled Rollo with elation. He could hug it to himself at night and feel powerful.

My stepfather, the builder, taught me how to perform certain operations in geometry: how to divide a line exactly in half, how to draw a right angle, and how to draw one square inside another so that the smaller is half the area of the larger.

Grigori had encountered such bands before. They were called the Black Hundreds, part of the Union of the Russian People, a right-wing group that wanted to return to the golden age when the tsar was the unchallenged father of his people and Russia had no liberals, no socialists, and no Jews. Their

Si es pecado codiciar el honor, soy el mayor de todos los pecadores».

No sentía simpatía por los profesionales de Dios

Algunos camaradas cometen el error de subestimar la ciencia pura en favor de la investigación práctica

You want a grand passion, a lifelong romance, but those exist only in poems," Genevieve said. "In real life we women settle for what we can get.

A mother is always worried.

Noruega fue invadida el mismo día que Dinamarca, pero los noruegos estuvieron luchando durante dos meses. ¿No nos convierte eso en unos cobardes?

Sin embargo, los moderados siempre parecían fiarse más de las esperanzas que de los hechos.

Lloyd held the door and

Her foreboding about the effects of the papal bull had turned out to be tragically accurate. Puritans could now gleefully point to Catholics as a danger to national security. Intolerance had gained a pretext.