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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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.

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

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

When you get there, there is no there….

lyf iz awsum wen u hav a dirty mind!!

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.

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.

His dreams were so big and his successes so small.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.