Quotes from Sidney Sheldon

Some cities are shaped by people, and some cities shape people.

All this and infinitely more in the space of sixty seconds, Dana thought. And then time ticks on until it finally sends us into the same unknown eternity.

The British are a strange race,' he said. 'In peacetime, they are impossible to manage, but in a crisis they are magnificent. The only time a British sailor is truly happy is when his ship is sinking.

I think so. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Secrets can be a burden. I mean, once you know something, that's it. You can never un-know it. You can never take that knowledge back. The innocence you had before, it's gone. You shouldn't inflict that on someone unless you really have to. Especially not someone you love.

Marry him. Good dull husbands are hard to find.

But he said it couldn't have

Only a fool rushes to inform of bad news.

I would have killed you if you had died.

A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.

You can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

Men! It would be a wonderful world if we could live without the bastards. Or maybe it wouldn't. Who knows?

Twenty-five percent of the Netherlands is reclaimed land. The whole country is sixteen feet below sea level.

The world was a marketplace, and people were either buyers or sellers.

The wind of fate, and in it rests our lives.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.