Ken Follett: Frases en inglés

“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

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

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

“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.”

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

“But desperate people find courage.”

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

“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.”

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

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

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

“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.”

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

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

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

“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.”

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

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

Ken Follett libro La caída de los gigantes

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

Ken Follett libro El invierno del mundo

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

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

“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?”

Ken Follett libro El invierno del mundo

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

Ken Follett libro El umbral de la eternidad

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

Ken Follett libro Un mundo sin fin

“Hunger is the best seasoning.”

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

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

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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.”

Ken Follett libro Los pilares de la Tierra

“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.”

Ken Follett libro El invierno del mundo