Ken Follett: Frases en inglés

“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”

“When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.”

“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.”

“But desperate people find courage.”

“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.”

“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”

“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.”

“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'…”

“Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.”

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

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

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

“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?”

“The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.”

“you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.”

“Hunger is the best seasoning.”

“Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.”

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

“And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.”