456 Quotes by Ken Follett

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.

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

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

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

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.

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.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.