Quotes from Ken Follett

He did not look down at his book. He was happy with his thoughts. They were often enough for him, nowadays. His mind was like a house he had spent his life furnishing.

passages proved the correctness of Protestant teaching.

If earls' daughters were allowed to marry whom they please, we'd all be ruled by strolling minstrels and dark-eyed outlaws." "The

But a woman was liable to put her child before everything else, in the end [...]

Exhaló un suspiro tan profundo y triste».

to stay, and lull them into a false sense of security. He

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kept in the laboratory for varying periods before being implanted in the women's wombs." Why did this happen to me? Why couldn't I be like everyone else? "They're closing the flight, I have to go." "I want to see you. I'll

The same baby at Kingsbridge Priory would cause a stir. On the other hand, what was wrong with that? It was not a sin to give people something to talk about.

lot of them say it couldn't happen here, but they're wrong.

What is wrong with this war is that we are on the wrong side. We are the bad guys. That is why kids dodge the draft; that is why the Vietnamese won't fight; that is why we kill women and children; that is why the generals lie to the politicians, and the politicians lie to the reporters, and the newspapers lie to the public. After that, his

el Ejército Rojo había liberado el campo de concentración de Sachsenhausen

of compromise now. It's a fight to

As the proverb says, if you're offered two bad apples you pick the least rotten one. And that's Kang.

Dios no haría un cuchillo con papel.

jaw. He examined his morning beard, pulling the loose skin this way

We're paying for the easy choices German men made fifteen years ago. Men such as my father, who thought Hitler would be good for business, and Heinrich's father, who voted for the Enabling Act. The sins of the fathers are visited on the daughters.

Before you try to take a speck out of your brother's eye, make sure you don't have a big piece of wood in your own eye, obstructing your vision, Jesus suggested.

Nixon. Era un hombre sin dignidad. Cada vez más gente veía que era un farsante, pero él, lejos de dimitir, se aferraba a la Casa Blanca soltando bravatas, ofuscando, amenazando y mintiendo, mintiendo y mintiendo.

People said that bathing was bad for your health, and Edgar never bathed in winter, but those who never bathed at all stank all their lives. Ma and Pa had taught their sons to keep themselves fresh by bathing at least once a year.

War enables people to be what they really are…" Dieter Franck in Jackdaws

The first thing Hitler did was take over the press and make it subservient to the government. Lenin did the same.

I think I'll always be in love with her. I believe it's like that with people you really love. If they go away, or die, it makes no difference.

The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent – but a president should have it.