Quotes from Sidney Sheldon

Usted es como yo —había dicho Sam Roffe—. Nosotros queremos ser dueños del mundo. Yo le enseñaré cómo lograrlo. —Y lo hizo.

HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church

They had broken his legs, but he could crawl.

Hostility comes in all ages, sizes and shapes

it's dangerous to throw stones at people if you're in a glass house.

You asked me what I wanted to do with my money.' She looked him in the eye and said, 'I want to earn it.

every man must risk something so that in the end he does not have to risk everything.

In a con game, you use his greed. You make the first move, and

I don't know about the people's nature... I know only about people.

Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing. - Jamie McGregor

if you're gonna shoot off your mouth, make sure it's loaded first.

There are no more statesmen. Countries are being run by politicians. There was a time not too long ago when this earth was peopled with giants. Some were good, and some were evil – but, by God, they were giants. Roosevelt and Churchill, Hitler and Mussolini. Charles de Gaulle and Joseph Stalin. Why did they all live at that one particular time? Why aren't there any statesmen today?

I'm alive, she thought. No one is born happy. Everyone has to make his own happiness. I'm a survivor. I'm young and I'm healthy and wonderful things are going to happen.

It was as though peace were a lethargy, a miasma that filled mankind with a sense of ennui, and it was only war that could stimulate man to the full exhilaration of life.

The future was clay, to be molded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.

Valor não é quanto uma coisa custa, rapaz. Isso é lenda. Valor é quanto alguém está disposto a pagar. Ou ser pago

Vocês policiais são como ônibus. Nunca estão lá quando precisamos, e então, de repente, todos aparecem de uma só vez.

The difference between 'I love you' and 'I'm in love with you' was a bridgeless chasm.

luxuriant black cascade, and against the graceful folds of her ivory

The great majority of people hate what they're doing, Mr Douglas. Instead of devising ways to get into something they like, they remain trapped all their lives, like brainless insects. It's rare to find a man who loves his work.

There is a smell to failure. It is a stench that clings like a miasma. Just as dogs can detect the odor of fear in a human being, so people can sense when a man is on his way down.

Ela acha que está morta por dentro, mas não está. Só está hibernando.

Legend had it that the word Mafia was coined after an incident where a young girl was raped and murdered, and her anguished mother ran into the night screaming for her daughter, 'Ma fia! Ma fia!

The great majority of people hate what they're doing, Mr Douglas. Instead of devising ways to get into something they like, they remain trapped all their lives, like brainless insects. It's rare to find a man who loves his work. Almost invariably when you find such a man, he is a success.