Sidney Sheldon Quotes

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Nothing lasts forever.

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's going to happen until you turn the page.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

Do you always throw your money away like this?" "Only when I'm in love,

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

...but ready or not,life goes on.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

Sing me no songs of daylight, For the sun is the enemy of lovers Sing instead of shadows and darkness, And memories of midnight

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he's going to get hungry.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.

Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting.

But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died.

But there was not a police car in sight. Sure, Tracy thought in disgust. They’re never around when you need them.

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.

A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate..

If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away.

Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.” — Dr. Kat Hunter

The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.

Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

God will never throw anything at you that you can’t handle. Just take it one step at a time.

If you would seek to find yourself look not in the mirror for there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH

Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sentimental gesture it was. In fact, Demiris had arranged for the burial plot to be there so that he could have the exquisite pleasure of walking over the bitch's grave.

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.

In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.

The difference between ‘I love you’ and ‘I’m in love with you’ was a bridgeless chasm.

Não me cantem canções da luz do dia / Pois o sol é o inimigo dos amantes / Cantem das sombras e da escuridão / E das lembranças da meia-noite.

Each manager sees his own division as the center of the world, and that’s as it should be. But someone has to have an overall view and decide what’s best for the company.

Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves.

Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom. She saw those around her fall ill and die, and she equated power with life. One day, Kate thought, I’ll have power. No one will be able to do this to me again.

lyf iz awsum wen u hav a dirty mind!!

Then there was only the soft night wind and the timeless sea. And the stars above, where it had all been written.

only in this life you made your own miracles, because god was busy elsewhere.

There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. —SIR WILLIAM OSLER

Old money’s motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money’s motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

When you get there, there is no there….

There is a theory that nothing in nature is ever lost—that every sound ever made, every word ever spoken, still exists somewhere in space and time and may one day be recalled.

If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the founder of Christianity did the same thing.

To succeed, you need friends. To really succeed, you need enemies

But loving and being in love are two different things, aren't they?

...she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.

His dreams were so big and his successes so small.

A man was soft when he was hard and hard when he was soft. So it was only necessary to keep him hard until he gave you what you wanted.

To be successful, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.

A Woman’s Place is in the House … and in the Senate.

Kelly, there is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

there is no absolute truth, there is only the interpretation of truth.

She had found that men who were outstandingly handsome were either monumentally stupid or unbearably dull.

My ancestors survived famine and plagues and floods, and I’m going to survive this.

What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.

Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.

There was an old Hungarian proverb: ‘Only a fool rushes bad news.

There were some people you hated on sight, just as there were others you liked on sight.

But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.

Beware of people who say they’re too rich to have to work for money, Adam thought.

I don't know about the people's nature... I know only about people.

Stupid people had a few authors in common: Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel. What nonsense. Such dreck.

Life is a cosmic grab-bag. At this moment, somewhere in the world, someone is losing a child, skiing down a mountain, having an orgasm, getting a haircut, lying on a bed of pain, singing on a stage, drowning, getting married, starving in a gutter. In the end, aren't we all that same person? An aeon is a thousand million years, and an aeon ago every atom in our bodies was a part of a star. Pay attention to me, God. We are all a part of your universe, and if we die, part of your universe dies with us.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms—greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge—has marked the upward surge of mankind. (Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street.

Kalau begitu mengapa dia tidak dikurung lama berselang?” “Karena dia memakai topeng?” “Apa maksud anda, Dokter?” “Kita semua memakai topeng, Angeli. Sejak kita meninggalkan masa kanak-kanak, kita sudah diajar untuk menyembunyikan perasaan kita yang sebenarnya. Kita sudah diajar untuk menutup-nutupi kebencian dan ketakutan kita. “ Suara Judd penuh wibawa. “Tapi di bawah tekanan, Don Vinton akan menjatuhkan topeng dan memperlihatkan wajahnya yang telanjang.

It takes a man to make a woman feel female, Jennifer thought, to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel wanted.

A thousand times more crimes were commited in the name of love, than in the name of hate.

On trial... the most important factor is not innocence or guilt, but the impression of innocence or guilt. There's no absolute truth. Just the interpretation of truth.

The future was clay, to be molded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.

I hope I didn’t wake

Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing.

impish, vivacious, and daring. She was half smoldering, half firecracker. Her face was puckishly heart shaped, her eyes were a mischievous brown, her figure alluring.

She used a lot of makeup—thick, dark eyeliner, false eyelashes, colored eye shadow and bright lipstick. It was as though she were trying to hide her beauty.

It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.

How long a honeymoon are you planning?” Mrs. Stanhope inquired. “About fifty years,” Charles replied.

He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.

Two years later, when Lara sold out her real estate holdings, she had a certified cheque for three million dollars. She was twenty-one years old.

Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

Nothing lasts forever. Nothing. How could everything have gone so wrong…so wrong…so wrong…

maniac.

When you’re trying to hide something,’ Paul Martin advised, ‘always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you’re doing anything wrong.

How easily it can all be washed away. Power, happiness, even life itself. It only takes an instant, a single unguarded instant. And it's gone.

You've got to take life's opportunities where you find them.

was not fond of Americans. He found them rude, materialistic and naïve.

Fate will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it.

It was as though her emotions had been worn out. She went from hatred to anger and, finally, to a resigned acceptance.

while money couldn’t always buy you happiness, a lack of money always brought anguish.

It’s indecent for anyone to be this happy, Tracy Whitney thought.

There was no one to see her off, no one for her to care about, no one who cared about her. That’s not true, Tracy told herself.

A man’s shoes said something about his character. Jennifer looked for jurors who wore comfortable shoes, because they were inclined to be easy-going.

The difference between 'I love you' and 'I'm in love with you' was a bridgeless chasm.

Some cities are shaped by people, and some cities shape people.

The world was a marketplace, and people were either buyers or sellers.

every man must risk something so that in the end he does not have to risk everything.

It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..

When you’re trying to hide something,” Paul Martin advised, “always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you’re doing anything wrong.

Kelly, before you walked out there, the audience thought you were just a beautiful, untouchable dream, a fantasy, out of reach. When you tripped and fell, it showed them that you’re human, and they adored you for it

Civilization was a thin, dangerously fragile veneer, and when that veneer cracked, man became one with the beasts again, falling back into the slime of the primeval abyss he prided himself on having climbed up from.

Paul Martin took his marriage vows seriously. For instance, he would never have dreamed of dishonouring his wife by taking her and his mistress to the same restaurant. His marriage was one part of his life, his affairs were another.

The line came from a legend about a hunter who was relating an experience he had on safari. “This huge lion was racing toward me, and all my gun bearers had fled. I had no gun, and there was nowhere to hide. Not a bush or a tree in sight. And the beast was charging straight at me, coming closer and closer.” “How did you escape?” a listener asked. “I ran over to the nearest tree and climbed it.” “But you said there were no trees.” “You don’t understand. There has to be a tree!” And I have to find it, Robert thought. He

Men were handy to have around, when required. They were not particularly intelligent, but they could be taught to fetch and light cigarettes, run errands, open doors and give satisfaction in bed. They made excellent pets, dressed and bathed themselves and were toilet-trained. An amusing species.

We're brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There's only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it's snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We're on a deserted space ship careening mindlessly among the stars. The world is Dachau, and we're all Jews.

Peace is a simple word, but it has a lot of ramifications. Peace doesn’t have any financial benefits. When there’s a war, countries buy billions of dollars’ worth of armaments that are made here in the United States. In peacetime, they don’t need any. Because Iran can’t sell its oil, oil prices are up, and the United States gets the benefit of that.

You must understand something, Mr Thompson. What I do has nothing to do with the money or the bricks and steel that make a building. It’s the people who matter. I’m able to give them a comfortable place to work or to live, a place where they can raise families and have decent lives. That’s what was important to my father, and it became important to me.

They met in the library searching for old Sidney Sheldon books. Her silence and calmness drew her to him. His brooding nature drew him to her. Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And every time they met their conversations sparked flames like the forest caught in a wild fire! There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they spoke to him a million things! He could know which night she had cried, which night she had slept peacefully and which night of hers had been spent in complete sleeplessness. He began reading her eyes more deeply and passionately than the books in the library... And being an obsessive man, he did things normal men did not! Like he knew the number of strands of hair that her eye-lashes had!

I create with my mind. I don’t physically put up a building, but I make it possible. I dream a dream of bricks and concrete and steel, and make it come true. I create jobs for hundreds of people; architects and bricklayers and designers and carpenters and plumbers. Because of me, they’re able to support their families. I give people beautiful surroundings to live in and make them comfortable. I build attractive stores where people can shop and buy things they need. I build monuments to the future.’ She smiled, sheepishly. ‘I didn’t mean to make a speech.

—Usted es como yo —había dicho Sam Roffe—. Nosotros queremos ser dueños del mundo. Yo le enseñaré cómo lograrlo. —Y lo hizo.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer,

Gifted children often struggle to make attachments

luxuriant black cascade, and against the graceful folds of her ivory

we do not inherit the world from our parents; we borrow it from our children.

Only a fool rushes to inform of bad news.

there is magic, but you have to be the magician. you have to make the magic happen.

Michener, LeCarre, and that towering literary figure, Sidney Sheldon.

Jesus had nothing to do with it. Just Jamie McGregor.

You asked me what I wanted to do with my money.’ She looked him in the eye and said, ‘I want to earn it.

Business is a game,’ David told Kate, ‘played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

El divorcio es para la práctica del derecho lo que la proctología es para el ejercicio de la medicina.

Nothing was sacred, nothing was safe. Privacy in today's civilization was a delusion, a myth. Every citizen was exposed, his deepest secrets laid bare, waiting to be read. ... If one knew where to look, and if one was patient, all the facts were available.

Making love is the affirmation of nature’s continuum. Whatever the reason,

We’ll start with these. I want you to listen carefully to the allegro in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. Twenty-one in C, Kochel 467, and the adagio in Brahms Piano Concerto No. One, and the moderato in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. Two in C Minor, Opus Eighteen, and finally, the romanze in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. One. They’re all marked.

Sidney Sheldon wrote with the supreme confidence of a winning gladiator. His words and language are swathed in the luxury of coated dynamics that roll the wheels of the spirit of each reading mind. His plots race with your heart, which lies in surveillance at the doorpost of your being, crenellated to witness that surge of mirth within far-flung frescoes of audacious themes.

He devised his own con games. He placed ads in newspapers offering a color picture of the President for a dollar. When he received a dollar, he sent his victim a postage stamp with a picture of the President on it. He put announcements in magazines warning the public that there were only sixty days left to send in five dollars, that after that it would be too late. The ad did not specify what the five dollars would buy, but the money poured in.

Newspapers and old magazines were piled everywhere. A door to an inner room burst open and Norman Z. Moody emerged. He was about five foot five and must have weighed three hundred pounds. He rolled as he walked, reminding Judd of an animated Buddha. He had a round, jovial face with wide, guileless, pale blue eyes. He was totally bald and his head was egg-shaped. It was impossible to guess his age. “Mr. Stevenson?” Moody greeted him. “Dr. Stevens,” Judd said. “Sit down, sit down.” Buddha with a Southern drawl. Judd looked around for a seat. He removed a pile of old body-building and nudist magazines from a scrofulous-looking leather armchair with strips torn out of it, and gingerly sat down. Moody was lowering his bulk into an oversized rocking chair. “Well, now! What can I do for you?” Judd knew that he had made a mistake. Over the phone he had carefully given Moody his full name. A name that had been on the front page of every New York newspaper in the last few days. And he had managed to pick the only private detective in the whole city who had never even heard of him. He cast about for some excuse to walk out. “Who recommended me?” Moody prodded. Judd hesitated, not wanting to

EVERYONE AT YAMPA VALLEY

if you're gonna shoot off your mouth, make sure it's loaded first.

A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.

bolinhos de bacalhau, the delicious codfish fritters cooked on every street corner. The riot of colour that existed everywhere, from the jungle flowers, to the women’s stunning dresses, to the frescoes and stained glass windows of the tiny, baroque Chapel of St Rita, where they now stood. All of it made Gunther Hartog feel young again. Young and alive. ‘What if Pierpont got wise?’ The worry lines deepened on Jeff Stevens’s face. ‘What if…?

her shoulders like poured molasses. Jeff Stevens had seen her in countless guises over the years –Tracy’s was a fluid, changeable beauty, which accounted for part of her success as a con artist –but he had never seen her look more lovely than she did today. Tracy’s mother used to tell her that she had ‘all the colours of the wind’ in her. Jeff Stevens understood exactly what Doris Whitney had meant. Today Tracy’s eyes, incredible eyes that could change from moss green to dark jade according to her mood, sparkled with happiness, and with

Each day it was getting more and more difficult for an honest man to make a living.

There should be a thirteenth commandment: Thou shall not abandon those who love you.

The great majority of people hate what they’re doing, Mr Douglas. Instead of devising ways to get into something they like, they remain trapped all their lives, like brainless insects. It’s rare to find a man who loves his work.

moment. ‘In New York,

cried,

suggested.

No man is an island. What happens to one, happens to us all, for we are all made of clay and stardust. We share the same moments of time. The universal second hand starts its unforgiving sweep toward the next minute:

average Russian reads three times as many books a year as the average United States citizen.

His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.

Но в предприемачеството човек се мери с другите по съобразителност, вкус към хазарта и инстинкт да усетиш кога да спреш и кога решително да продължиш. — Предприемачеството е игра — каза й Дейвид, — в която се залагат невероятни суми и си мериш силите със спецове. Ако искаш да спечелиш, трябва да се научиш да си господар на играта.

— Попита ме какво смятам да правя с парите си — погледна го твърдо тя и заяви: — Искам да спечеля още.

Жан Жак Русо е казал:"Свободата е възможността да избираме собствените си вериги

Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron

I think so. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Secrets can be a burden. I mean, once you know something, that’s it. You can never un-know it. You can never take that knowledge back. The innocence you had before, it’s gone. You shouldn’t inflict that on someone unless you really have to. Especially not someone you love.

Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit

Marry him. Good dull husbands are hard to find.

But he said it couldn’t have

In a con game, you use his greed. You make the first move, and

If you had to remind someone you loved that it was your birthday, then it was futile.

I worked my butt off to get where I am. I love it. I love the money. I love the power. I'm a king, baby, and I love being king.

Ela acha que está morta por dentro, mas não está. Só está hibernando.

Vocês policiais são como ônibus. Nunca estão lá quando precisamos, e então, de repente, todos aparecem de uma só vez.

Valor não é quanto uma coisa custa, rapaz. Isso é lenda. Valor é quanto alguém está disposto a pagar. Ou ser pago

Tracy forced

I’m changing the name. It’s going to be called the Cameron Palace.’ Lara felt a thrill just saying the words. It was almost a sexual feeling. Her name was going to be on a building for all the world to see.

Ты не знаешь, что может случиться завтра. Жизнь -- как роман, понимаешь? Полна тайн и неопределенности. Держит в напряжении. И ты никогда не узнаешь, что будет дальше, пока не перевернешь страницу.Каждый день -- это новая страница , которая может быть полна сюрпризов .

They had broken his legs, but he could crawl.

glided

hysteria

sweeping

You can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

It was amazing how quickly the body could heal. But the spirit was not so resilient.

The British are a strange race,’ he said. ‘In peacetime, they are impossible to manage, but in a crisis they are magnificent. The only time a British sailor is truly happy is when his ship is sinking.

The great majority of people hate what they’re doing, Mr Douglas. Instead of devising ways to get into something they like, they remain trapped all their lives, like brainless insects. It’s rare to find a man who loves his work. Almost invariably when you find such a man, he is a success.

It was as though peace were a lethargy, a miasma that filled mankind with a sense of ennui, and it was only war that could stimulate man to the full exhilaration of life.

HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church,

secret

The wind of fate, and in it rests our lives.

From now on, I’ll have to be my own rock. Rebuild my own life. Start afresh. I’ve done it before, and I’ll do it

Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he’s going to get hungry.

I would have killed you if you had died.

Business is a game,’ David told Kate, ‘played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the

Legend had it that the word Mafia was coined after an incident where a young girl was raped and murdered, and her anguished mother ran into the night screaming for her daughter, ‘Ma fia! Ma fia!