Zitate von Ken Follett

„Weißt du denn nicht, dass du die Seele verlierst, wenn du die Wahrheit über dich selbst abstreitest?“

—  Ken Follett, buch Winter der Welt

„das selbst sagen?«“

—  Ken Follett, buch Die Tore der Welt

„Zustand drohender Kriegsgefahr. Prepare for imminent war.“

—  Ken Follett, buch Sturz der Titanen

„Die Ente schluckt den Wurm, der Fuchs tötet die Ente, die Männer erschießen den Fuchs und der Teufel jagt die Männer.“

—  Ken Follett

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

—  Ken Follett, buch The Pillars of the Earth

„But desperate people find courage.“

—  Ken Follett, buch The Pillars of the Earth

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

—  Ken Follett, buch The Pillars of the Earth

„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, buch The Pillars of the Earth

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

—  Ken Follett, buch The Pillars of the Earth

„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, buch The Pillars of the Earth

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

—  Ken Follett, buch The Pillars of the Earth

„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, buch The Pillars of the Earth

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

—  Ken Follett, buch Sturz der Titanen

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

—  Ken Follett, buch Winter der Welt

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

—  Ken Follett, buch The Pillars of the Earth

„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, buch Winter der Welt

„Proportion is the heart of beauty.“

—  Ken Follett, buch The Pillars of the Earth

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

—  Ken Follett, buch Edge of Eternity

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

—  Ken Follett, buch Die Tore der Welt