On Wings of Eagles Quotes

“You never said: “I can’t do that because ...” You always said: “This is the progress I have made so far, and this is the problem I am working on right now ...”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

“«El éxito tiene mil padres, pero el fracaso es huérfano.»”
― Ken Follett, Las alas del águila

“Besides, even that much money would not buy them the right to leave the country. They would probably be kept under house arrest in Tehran—white the mobs took over. Bail sometimes seemed more like a trap than a way of escape. It was a catch-22.

The whole experience was a lesson in values. Bill learned that he could do without his fine house, his cars, fancy food, and clean clothes. It was no big deal to be living in a dirty room with bugs crawling across the walls. Everything he had in life had been stripped away, and he discovered that the only thing he cared about was his family. When you got right down to it, that was all that really counted: Emily, Vicki, Jackie, Jenny, and Chris.”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

“Randone”
― Ken Follett, Las alas del águila

“sure their gamble”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

“...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.”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

“...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”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

“Perot's father did not know what civil rights were: this was how you treated other human beings.”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

“done wrong.” “No,”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

“them their welfare system meant”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles