Quotes from Ken Follett

por Dios, acudiría en ayuda de quienes temían por su vida.

Daisy thought of one of Churchill's jibes about Attlee: "An empty car drew up and Clem got out." The man he called a nonentity had thrashed him.

himself, that he might survive tomorrow's

Se preguntó cuánto tiempo más tardaría en sobreponerse.

Desfrânat?? întreb? ea, tare. Dar tu? C?lug?rii aceÈ™tia nu È™tiu c? e nevoie de doi oameni ca s? comiÈ›i preacurvie?

Petranilla turned to the girls. "Our father was descended from Tom Builder, the stepfather and mentor of Jack Builder, architect of Kingsbridge Cathedral," she said.

The Wife's Lament.'" She turned to Aldred.

A million people lined the route, according to the television commentary. The coffin was taken from the White House to St. Matthew's Cathedral, where there was a mass. At twelve noon there was a five-minute silence, and traffic stopped all over America. The cameras showed crowds standing silent on city streets.

We shouldn't be talking of politics. Women ought to leave such matters to their husbands.

C'est ta vie, fais comme tu l'entends, mais méfie-toi quand même.

Volodya's happiness did not quite let him forget the horrors he had seen and the profound misgivings he had developed about Soviet Communism. The unspeakable brutality of the secret police, the blunders of Stalin that had cost millions of lives, and the propaganda that had encouraged the Red Army to behave like crazed beasts in Germany had all caused him to doubt the most fundamental things he had been brought up to believe. He

Decía que la integridad personal es como una espada: no debería blandirse hasta el momento de ponerla a prueba.

if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all. Ross Perot

Why not?" Grigori shrugged. "Cowardice. The tsar ordered Ivanov to march on Petrograd and set up a military dictatorship, but Ivanov's men became mutinous and the expedition was canceled." Katerina frowned. "Has the old ruling

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.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing.

Pero lo primero es defender la revolución, por supuesto.

But he seemed to have a compelling need to feel special and be noticed by others all the time; and this drove him to create scenes.

if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all.

A friendly Londoner gave him a rapid stream of detailed instructions, every word of which he found completely incomprehensible. He thanked the man and walked out of the station.

Han aplastado a la nobleza. —Pero también a la prensa que estaba en su contra.

A la gente no le gustan los políticos que minan la moral de nuestros soldados cuestionando la guerra.

looking small and insignificant in the

Un ignorante piensa que los extranjeros son estúpidos, sin darse cuenta de que él también parecería igual de necio si viajase al extranjero.