Quotes from Ken Follett

El tono de un gobierno lo establecían quienes ocupaban sus puestos más altos, y Bak no estaba sino imitando el estilo del líder supremo, que hacía gala de la terca superioridad de un fanático religioso.

Ya está —pensó Grigori—. Esto es una revolución.»

But he had no wish to win an argument with his son. He just wanted the boy to know the truth.

B?rbatul nu avea nici trecut, nici educaÈ›ie, nici familie, dar era inteligent È™i avea bani, iar în vremuri grele, chestiile astea valorau mai mult decât o educaÈ›ie bun?.

She read a short report in The Times datelined Vienna and headed THE SERVIAN SCARE. She asked Bea if Russia would defend Serbia against the Austrians. "I hope not!" Bea said, alarmed. "I don't want my brother to go to war." Maud

its young soldiers across no-man's-land to be mown down by machine guns. Again and again the newspapers hailed a victory, but the telegrams told another story.

tenía encima de la nevera. —Puede que esto te resulte algo más entretenido.

He was twelve years old, and he sought ringing certainties. He would have to learn slowly, like everyone else.

Nu este nimic mai scandalos decât o femeie scandaloas?.

again and opened the other. "This is my financing.

in Winchester, and now she took out three pennies and showed them to the peasant. "Here," she said. "Take it or leave it." The sight of the silver helped the peasant make up his mind. "Done," he said, and took the money. Aliena smiled. It looked as if she might have found the answer. That night she used a bundled fleece for a pillow. The smell of sheep reminded her of Meg's house. When she woke up in the morning she discovered

We cannot hope to understand the world—all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate

Elizabeth has told me many times that if she should become queen, it is her dearest wish that no Englishman should lose his life for the sake of his beliefs. I think that's an ideal worthy of a man's faith.

abrazaba cualquier causa perdida que apareciera en las noticias, desde el maltrato a los animales hasta el desarme nuclear.

Then everything is clear, Reynold said, looking around triumphantly at the crowd. Jacques Cherbourg did not drown, he survived. He went to England, lived there a while, made a girl pregnant, and died. The girl gave birth to a boy and named him after the father. Jack here is now twenty, and looks exactly like his father did twenty-four years ago. Reynold looked at the priest. No need for exorcism here, father. It's just a family reunion.

Grey quoted Gladstone, asking "whether, under the circumstances of the case, this country, endowed as it is with influence and power, would quietly stand by and witness the perpetration of the direst crime that ever stained the pages of history, and thus become participators in the sin?

The sun shone cheerfully, as on a fine day in hell.

Might there come a time when people of different faiths did not kill one another?

Sylvie appeared startled by that thought. Perhaps she had not imagined that children might bring pain as well as joy.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light To stamp the seal of time in aged things To wake the morn and sentinel the night To wrong the wronger till he render right To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours And smear with dust their glittering golden towers

The Americans encircle us. They have troops in Japan, South Korea, Guam, Singapore, and Australia. As well as that, the Philippines and Vietnam are friends of the US. The Americans did the same thing to the Soviet Union—they called it 'containment.' And in the end the Russian Revolution was strangled. We have to avoid the fate of the Soviets, but we won't do it at the UN. Sooner or later we will have to smash the ring.

When the general staff closed their eyes to bad news, men died.

Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world of power and property required that a man be suspicious, demanding, and insistent.