Ken Follett Short Quotes

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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.

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Why do you have to be the same as the others?...Most of them are stupid.

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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...

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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

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There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

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But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

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A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

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It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

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Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

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Best-sellers are about murder, money, revenge, ambition, and sex, sex, sex. So are literary novels. But best-selling authors give you more per page.

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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.

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When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

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She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

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Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

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To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

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President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

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