All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtled past them in a clash of iron and a shriek of steam.

Ken Follett
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  1. Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be. - Carroll Bryant

  2. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? - Confucius

  3. You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. - Sarah Addison Allen

  4. That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history. - Anonymous

  5. That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. - Euripides

More Quotes By Ken Follett
  1. 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.

  2. I think there are two kinds of marriage, " Ethel said thoughtfully. "One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other comfort and help." She was talking about herself and Bernie,...

  3. Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

  4. He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

  5. ... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

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