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Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
— Mary Parker Follett
It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them ...
— Mary Parker Follett
I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.
— Mary Parker Follett
The truth is not arrived at by majority vote.
— Ken Follett
In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.
— Ken Follett
It's like knowing your way through the forest. You don't keep the whole forest in your mind, but wherever you are, you know where to go next.
— Ken Follett
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
— Ken Follett
What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
— Ken Follett
Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...
— Ken Follett
Grigori had become good at that, and in consequence had won the loyalty of his platoon.
— Ken Follett
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
— Ken Follett
A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully.
— Ken Follett
I started writing stories in my spare time.
— Ken Follett
I could fall for you in a heartbeat
— Ken Follett
He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books.
— Ken Follett
Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
— Ken Follett
A German attack on Russia's ally France would, in reality, be defensive - but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe.
— Ken Follett
Dimka wondered what it must be like, to love a woman for half a century and then lose her, suddenly, between one beat of the heart and the next.
— Ken Follett
It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.
— Ken Follett
institution, poor mite." Lloyd had heard how the baby had been delivered by eleven-year-old Carla. That little girl
— Ken Follett
Responsiblity is the great developer of men.
— Mary Parker Follett
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
— Ken Follett
There is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.
— Mary Parker Follett
It was the most romantic plane ever made.
— Ken Follett
A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
— Ken Follett
There's a time and place for spontaneity,
— Ken Follett
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
— Ken Follett
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
The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.
— Ken Follett
Them their welfare system meant
— Ken Follett
It looked, she thought, as if the hand of God had come down over England and struck the earth, destroying everything men had made except churches.
— Ken Follett
The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten,
— Ken Follett
Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
— Ken Follett
They have no tsar in America - no emperor or king of any kind. The army can't just shoot anyone they like. The people rule the country!" She
— Ken Follett
When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'
— Ken Follett
Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.
— Ken Follett
The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.
— Ken Follett
Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.
— Ken Follett
Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
— Mary Parker Follett
One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
— Ken Follett
The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
— Mary Parker Follett
A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing.
— Ken Follett
Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?
— Ken Follett
I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.
— Ken Follett
Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.
— Mary Parker Follett
There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
— Mary Parker Follett
You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels.
— Ken Follett
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
— Ken Follett
I see everything, but understand nothing!
— Ken Follett
Management is the art of getting things done through people.
— Mary Parker Follett
Chaperoning rules had relaxed since the outbreak of war. It was no longer scandalous for a single woman to go out unescorted in the daytime.
— Ken Follett
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
— Wilson Follett
The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.
— Mary Parker Follett
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
— Ken Follett
He was the kind of man George had been fighting for a decade: an ugly, fat, foul-mouthed, stupid white racist.
— Ken Follett
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
— Wilson Follett
A secret shared is a secret no more.
— Ken Follett
Fascism is a lie, but an alluring one".
— Ken Follett
Philip believed that caring for people was the service of God. That was what salvation was about.
— Ken Follett
What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.
— Ken Follett
Orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
— Mary Parker Follett
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
— Mary Parker Follett
While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.
— Mary Parker Follett
The victim had been John Lewis, the theology student. He had been attacked by thugs in a white restroom in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
— Ken Follett
She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.
— Ken Follett
It seemed trivial. After the battlefield it was going to be difficult to take seriously some of the stuff people worried about in peacetime.
— Ken Follett
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
He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
— Ken Follett
Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
— Mary Parker Follett
intuition should never be ignored.
— Ken Follett
Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland.
— Ken Follett
In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
— Mary Parker Follett
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.
— Mary Parker Follett
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
The duck swallows the worm
— Ken Follett