Quotes from Ken Follett

Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who constantly says, like Bobby Kennedy: 'I agree with the goal you seek, but I cannot condone your methods.' He paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom

Louis said: "Dismas?" Ragna said: "That was the name of one of the thieves crucified with Jesus." "I know that," said Louis heavily, and Ragna told herself not to be so clever. Aldred said: "This Dismas also steals, especially food.

The fact that you're ready to give up your life's work to live with me is ... it almost breaks my heart that you should love me so much. But I don't want to be the woman who took you away from the work you loved.

Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

Dirigió una última mirada atrás. Su puente dominaba el panorama. Había transformado radicalmente la aldea. La mayoría de la gente ya no se refería a ella por su antiguo nombre de Dreng's Ferry. Ahora la llamaban King's Bridge, el puente del rey.

When people came here they were supposed to be awestruck by the majesty of Almighty God. But peasants were simple people who judged by appearances, and coming here they would think that God was a careless, indifferent deity unlikely to appreciate their worship or take note of their sins. In the end the peasants paid for the church with the sweat of their brows, and it was outrageous that they were rewarded with this crumbling mausoleum

Regii È™i conÈ›ii aveau nevoie de dovezi ale vener?rii È™i, cu cât, erau de rang mai mic, cu atât pretindeau mai mult respect.

No puedo creer que lo nuestro vaya a terminar de esta manera.

Nosotros pertenecemos a la nobleza —dijo su padre—. No tenemos por qué atender a las necesidades de unos simples mercaderes.

Când ai de-a face cu un om mândru, trebuie s? È™tii c? pentru el orgoliul conteaz? mai mult decât mintea.

iba camino de correr la misma suerte. Y, de repente, alguien tenía las agallas de decirlo.

Se sentía perdido.

Aveva desiderato eccitazioni, città, musica, gente, idee. Ora il desiderio di quelle cose l'aveva abbandonata, e non riusciva a comprendere come le avesse tanto agognate. Le sembrò che la pace fosse tutto quello che un essere umano avrebbe dovuto chiedere.

Bien, Francis; ¿me habéis traído a vuestro gemelo? —preguntó al fin.

ToÈ›i selecteaz? ce vor din înv???tura Bisericii È™i ignor? ceea ce nu le convine.

I'm sure, but at least people here know what's sinful and what's not. The other thing is that I've seen no slaves anywhere in Normandy." "There's a slave market in Rouen, but the buyers are foreigners. Slavery has been almost completely abolished here. Our clergy condemn it

thousands of acres of

Bien, Francis; ¿me habéis traído a vuestro gemelo? —preguntó al fin. —Es mi hermano Philip, señora, el prior de Kingsbridge

había cometido un asesinato en Bosnia, y un mes después, ¡Rusia estaba en guerra con Alemania!

lo oyeron decir: «Hasta aquí vamos bien».

Pour l'heure, il n'était pas à côté d'elle mais un peu plus loin dans la foule, et bavardait avec Bessie la Cloche, la fille du propriétaire de l'auberge, une fille de petite taille avec des courbes là où il en fallait et un sourire que les hommes trouvaient aguichant et les femmes fabriqué.

When he thought about how he had been slighted, condescended to, manipulated and deceived, he became angry. Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world of power and property demanded that a man be suspicious, demanding, and insistent.

he might never enter this house again. Coming

Lanzar una bomba desde un avión en movimiento y lograr que impactara contra un barco en movimiento, o dejar caer un torpedo de manera que alcanzara un buque, revestía una dificultad increíble, sobre todo para un piloto al que estaban disparando desde arriba y desde abajo.