|
1719941
|
Each day it was getting more and more difficult for an honest man to make a living.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
500f51f
|
Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
846594c
|
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.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
8c87a12
|
HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church,
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
b9969fd
|
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.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
e5e9fa1
|
secret
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
309c869
|
His dreams were so big and his successes so small.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
413198f
|
His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
ddb1c35
|
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..
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
668eb24
|
There were some people you hated on sight, just as there were others you liked on sight.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
cec39a6
|
Marry him. Good dull husbands are hard to find.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
a9f012a
|
The wind of fate, and in it rests our lives.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
6bff1d3
|
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:
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
5da9043
|
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.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
8cf9273
|
She had found that men who were outstandingly handsome were either monumentally stupid or unbearably dull.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
3cf02a1
|
There is a smell to failure. It is a stench that clings like a miasma. Just as dogs can detect the odor of fear in a human being, so people can sense when a man is on his way down.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
634c08a
|
It was as though her emotions had been worn out. She went from hatred to anger and, finally, to a resigned acceptance.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
9f21816
|
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.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
e828e19
|
Dana Evans was a foreign correspondent for the Washington Tribune Enterprises Broadcasting System. She reported the news every day, and Oliver tried not to miss her broadcasts. She was one of the best reporters on the air
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
eed4f1e
|
When you get there, there is no there....
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
ff9f55b
|
All rich Americans are crazy, especially their women.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
7a82b12
|
there is no absolute truth, there is only the interpretation of truth.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
584b067
|
For talent was like a frail flower growing under solid rock. In the end, nothing could stop it from bursting through and blooming.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
a79e9b3
|
she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
5147069
|
I hope I didn't wake
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
139e67e
|
Fate will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
2a99709
|
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.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
c0bac5e
|
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
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
00f402f
|
My ancestors survived famine and plagues and floods, and I'm going to survive this.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
855f118
|
There are no more statesmen. Countries are being run by politicians. There was a time not too long ago when this earth was peopled with giants. Some were good, and some were evil - but, by God, they were giants. Roosevelt and Churchill, Hitler and Mussolini. Charles de Gaulle and Joseph Stalin. Why did they all live at that one particular time? Why aren't there any statesmen today?
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
a4d8b93
|
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!
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
d22c0fa
|
Old money's motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money's motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
c72ddc4
|
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti - the KGB - trains a thousand agents at a time.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
70508c3
|
It's indecent for anyone to be this happy, Tracy Whitney thought.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
5e6030d
|
What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
349da78
|
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.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
9457039
|
sweeping
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
0a702b5
|
My definition of a liberal is a man who has his ass firmly stuck in clouds of cotton wool.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
41f8cde
|
Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
2c3aac5
|
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.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
30015f2
|
Men! It would be a wonderful world if we could live without the bastards. Or maybe it wouldn't. Who knows?
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
36b898e
|
Twenty-five percent of the Netherlands is reclaimed land. The whole country is sixteen feet below sea level.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
c925dc4
|
Kelly, there is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |
|
8123c16
|
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.
|
|
|
Sidney Sheldon |