Windmills of the Gods Quotes

“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“Life is a cosmic grab-bag. At this moment, somewhere in the world, someone is losing a child, skiing down a mountain, having an orgasm, getting a haircut, lying on a bed of pain, singing on a stage, drowning, getting married, starving in a gutter. In the end, aren't we all that same person? An aeon is a thousand million years, and an aeon ago every atom in our bodies was a part of a star. Pay attention to me, God. We are all a part of your universe, and if we die, part of your universe dies with us.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“every man must risk something so that in the end he does not have to risk everything.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“We're brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There's only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it's snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We're on a deserted space ship careening mindlessly among the stars. The world is Dachau, and we're all Jews.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“Making love is the affirmation of nature’s continuum. Whatever the reason,”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“Just remember,’ Mary told the children, ‘when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“Hostility comes in all ages, sizes and shapes,”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“If something seems to be too good to be true, Mary, it probably is.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“Individuals who are engaged in a profitable partnership don’t kill one another. I believe that the same principle applies to countries.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“Life is a cosmic grab-bag. At this moment, somewhere in the world, someone is losing a child, skiing down a mountain, having an orgasm, getting a haircut, lying on a bed of pain, singing on a stage, drowning, getting married, starving in a gutter. In the end, aren’t we all that same person? An aeon is a thousand million years, and an aeon ago every atom in our bodies was a part of a star. Pay attention to me, God. We are all a part of your universe, and if we die, part of your universe dies with us.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“There are no such things as dumb problems. There are only dumb students.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“In a sense. It’s for Beth. She’ll only eat natural foods.’ ‘Why don’t you just put her out to pasture and let her graze?”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“it’s dangerous to throw stones at people if you’re in a glass house.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“There are no more statesmen. Countries are being run by politicians. There was a time not too long ago when this earth was peopled with giants. Some were good, and some were evil – but, by God, they were giants. Roosevelt and Churchill, Hitler and Mussolini. Charles de Gaulle and Joseph Stalin. Why did they all live at that one particular time? Why aren’t there any statesmen today?”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

“My definition of a liberal is a man who has his ass firmly stuck in clouds of cotton wool.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods