Never Quotes

“A fool was just a fool, but a fool in the White House was the most dangerous person in the world.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“It was a bold request, but she hated delay: an hour turned into a day, and a day turned into a week, and bright ideas died from lack of oxygen.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn’t get fixed.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“So you’re comparing American Christians with Chinese Communists.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Like so many parties, this one was work for a lot of the guests.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“fool was just a fool, but a fool in the White House was the most dangerous person in the world.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Kais Mutter war ähnlich konservativ, aber nicht ganz so dogmatisch. »Wenn du sie so gut kennst, dass dir alle ihre Fehler und Schwächen vertraut sind, und du sie noch immer anbetest, dann kannst du dir sicher sein, dass es wahre Liebe ist«, hatte sie gesagt.”
― Ken Follett, Never: Die letzte Entscheidung

“Безпідставний егоїзм ще нікого не врятував.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“—Lo que pasa es que los problemas fáciles se solucionan enseguida y solo quedan los difíciles. Por eso nunca deberías creer a un político que ofrezca respuestas sencillas.”
― Ken Follett, Nunca

“What we need is a strategy for presenting you as the smart problem solver who understands the issues, by contrast with the blowhard who just says what he thinks people want to hear.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“But violent talk led to violent action in the world just as it did in the school playground. A fool was just a fool, but a fool in the White House was the most dangerous person in the world.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“He believed that few voters understood anything that could not be put on a T-shirt.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“was one of Milt’s sayings. He believed that few voters understood anything that could not be put on a T-shirt. The fact that Milt was so often right made him more obnoxious. Pauline said: “I want to win, Milt.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Commonsense conservatism” had been her slogan: no extremes, no abuse, no prejudice. She stood for low-risk foreign policy, low-key policing, and low-tax government. But millions of voters still hankered after a big-talking macho leader, and Moore was winning their support.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Pauline knew, from observing other parents, that disagreements over child rearing created some of the worst marital conflicts. They involved people’s most deeply held convictions about morals, religion, and values. They brought out the truth about whether the couple was compatible or not.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“A fool was just a fool, but a fool in the White House was the most dangerous person in the world. She said: “Let me see if I can pour oil on”
― Ken Follett, Never

“If I should die and my soul gets lost, it’s nobody’s fault but mine.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“bumpety-bumpety music.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“I know what happens when there is not enough food. I have seen it.” She looked away, remembering, and her voice went quieter. “The baby gets thinner, but at first that doesn’t seem too serious. Then he gets sick. It’s a childhood infection such as many children catch, with spots or a runny nose or diarrhea, but the hungry child takes a long time to recover, then he gets another illness. He is tired all the time and grizzles a lot and he doesn’t play much, just lies still and coughs. And then one day he closes his eyes and doesn’t open them again. And sometimes the mother is too tired to weep.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“It was like the charge of witchcraft in the olden days: once the accusation had been leveled, it was easy to find something that looked like evidence. No one was really innocent.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“When you know her so well that all her faults and weaknesses are familiar to you, and you still adore her, then you can be sure it’s true love,” she had said. “That’s how I feel about your father.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“but look, you have to fall in and out of love a few times before you begin to understand what you’re really looking for.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended it to happen. But the emperors and prime ministers, one by one, made decisions—logical, moderate decisions—each of which took us a small step closer to the most terrible conflict the world had ever known. I came to believe that it was all a tragic accident. And I wondered: could that happen again?”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Smart conservatives know that you can’t stop change but you can slow it down. That way people have time to get used to new ideas, and you don’t suffer an angry reaction. Liberals make the mistake of demanding radical change now, and that undermines them.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“yet”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Communist”
― Ken Follett, Never

“but a fool in the White House was the most dangerous person in the world.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Pippa had to learn not to let an argument become a fight. Pauline had to steer her carefully. Like most political problems, this could not be solved by brute force, only by finesse.”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Sometimes international politics was just like a Sicilian vendetta,”
― Ken Follett, Never

“Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.’ ” It was not a Chinese proverb, Tamara knew, but a quote from a French novel, but the message was clear in any language”
― Ken Follett, Never