456 Quotes by Ken Follett

Ishmael was looking at him through narrowed eyes. “This is very important to you, this box.”“It’s important to the world.”Ishmael said: “The sun rises, and the sun sets. Sometimes it rains. We live, then we die.” He shrugged.He would never understand, Wolff thought; but others would.

Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.

But a woman was liable to put her child before everything else, in the end [...]

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

She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behind her as she glided down the stairs. Her hair was a mass of dark curls tumbling around her face, and she had dark, dark eyes. Jack realized that this was what the chansons meant when they referred to a beautiful princess in a castle. No wonder the knights all wept when the princess died.

...if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all." Ross Perot

...if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all.

When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.

I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.