World Without End Quotes

“you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor’s wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that’s when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn’t wave it until you’re about to put it to the test.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Talvez os selvagens nunca abandonem o poder - afirmou Philip com ar de desalento. - Talvez a cobiça nunca deixe de pesar mais nos conselhos dos poderosos que a sabedoria; talvez o medo nunca deixe de vencer a compaixão na mente dum homem com uma espada empunhada.”
― Ken Follett, Os Pilares da Terra, Volume 2 of 2

“When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Any man who needs to surround himself with loyal acolytes doesn’t really believe in himself,” he would say. “And if he doesn’t believe in himself, why should I?”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“You didn’t ask for a priest.” “Whether I’ve been good or bad, I don’t think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“The worst negotiator in the world is a man who believes he's clever.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“In the Arab world, every work of art has a tiny flaw, so that it doesn’t sacrilegiously compete with the perfection of God.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they decide not to go”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Benedict, but they say he doesn’t set himself up on a pedestal.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Don’t worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.” She”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Never call a meeting until the outcome is a foregone conclusion.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“With the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Un completo desconocido se me acercó y me dijo: Eres tu... !Cuanto tiempo! Tienes que casarte conmigo antes de que vuelvas a desaparecer. Creí que estaba loco.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“PART II June 8 to 14, 1337”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“He slipped his hand inside her coat and touched her through the soft linen of her dress. Her body was warm. He held her breast in his palm, small and round. He loved the way her flesh yielded to the press of his fingertips. He had never seen her naked, but he knew her breasts intimately. In his dreams they went farther.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Gwenda sighed. She did not know how to say what she felt. It was not just love. She thought about him all the time, and she did not know how she could live without him. She daydreamed about kidnapping him and locking him up in a hut deep in the forest so that he could never escape from her.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Her dog, Skip, followed them, but Sim threw stones at him, and after one hit him full on the nose, he retreated with his tail between his legs. After”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

“Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world – all we can do is stand amazed at God’s creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End (TV tie-in)

“das selbst sagen?«”
― Ken Follett, World Without End