Ken Follett Quotes
Ken Follett Quotes
you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
1262 Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
4650 He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.
2924 Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
3519 There had been a wonderful atmosphere of liberation and camaraderie. The Russians hated it.
1680 There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.
2443 Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.
2285 Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last sixty-five year was the refusal to face facts.(1075)
1289 Proportion is the heart of beauty.
3926 She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.
1347 The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
2256 Marvelous, isn’t it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they’re fucking dead.
2519 Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.
4359 to him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game
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