Top 39 Frederick Forsyth Quotes
#2. I'm awake, I'm alive, now I know what I believe inside, now its my time, I'll do what I want, cause this is my life!
Skillet
#3. The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
Frederick Forsyth
#4. They didn't give you a glass for that?" I ask, nodding at the soda can as I shake his hand. The old man laughs.
"They offered me one, but I declined. It's harder to spill on oneself from a can." Dr. Mann smiles and takes a careful sip.
Lauren Miller
#5. Ever since I was young, I have wanted to help others live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives.
Rachele Brooke Smith
#6. Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it
Frederick Forsyth
#7. I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
Quentin Crisp
#8. there was no such thing as collective guilt. But we Germans have been told for twenty years that we are all guilty. Do you believe that?
Frederick Forsyth
#9. In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.
Frederick Forsyth
#10. ... Shannon's fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself,
Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.
Frederick Forsyth
#11. The technique of beaming a ray on to window glass and reading from the vibrations the conversation going on inside had been used against the American embassy in Moscow in the Cold War and required the reconstruction of the entire building.
Frederick Forsyth
#12. The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
Frederick Forsyth
#13. I'm nervous, but once I get a guitar on and start a song, after the first few seconds, I can feel it ease. I don't have to worry about anything other than the music.
Phillip Phillips
#14. Kuwait was always historically part of Iraq. Like Nehru invading Portuguese Goa.
Frederick Forsyth
#15. Death's an old story, but new for each person.
Ivan Turgenev
#16. Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"
Marvin J. Ashton
#17. Shut up, Axl!" he whispered fiercly. "If you want to break your neck, do it quietly or I'll break it for you.
John Flanagan
#18. He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.
Frederick Forsyth
#19. I have spent twenty years trying to understand the look in her eyes. Was it love or hatred, contempt or pity, bewilderment or understanding? I shall never know.
Frederick Forsyth
#20. There is no collective guilt, ... guilt is individual, like salvation. [p.28]
Frederick Forsyth
#21. Wealth without real worthiness
Is no good for the neighbourhood;
But their proper mixture
Is the summit of beatitude.
Sappho
#22. For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.
Donnie Yen
#23. Position for his colleague in Secret Intelligence would be just the reverse. Sir Mark was having
Frederick Forsyth
#24. Let me guess," the frog interrupted,"Like every other human explored I've even met, you want to know the meaning of life."
"I didn't-"
"The answer's forty-four. The machine was off by two" the frog snapped, "Believe me, it makes a world of difference...
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
#25. The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
Frederick Forsyth
#26. I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.
Paula Radcliffe
#27. It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
Frederick Forsyth
#28. There are several ways of making quick money but in the general list, writing a novel rates well below robbing a bank.
Frederick Forsyth
#29. I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's all been incredibly rapid - a year, a year and a half. And it's not a concern: it's an obsession. It's something very close to hysteria.
Frederick Forsyth
#31. On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
Frederick Forsyth
#32. The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.
Frederick Forsyth
#33. You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.
Frederick Forsyth
#34. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there's no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.
Dalai Lama
#35. But the words did not come. They never do, when one needs them.
Frederick Forsyth
#36. The specific murderers of the SS therefore hide even today behind the collective guilt theory.
Frederick Forsyth
#38. The notion that the lobby at Langley is choked with the corpses of former agents gunned down by their own colleagues at the behest of genocidal directors on the top floor is amusing but wholly unreal.
Frederick Forsyth
#39. As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
Frederick Forsyth
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