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101 " there is no absolute truth, there is only the interpretation of truth. "
― Sidney Sheldon , The Other Side of Midnight (Midnight #1)
102 " 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 , A Stranger in the Mirror
103 " ...she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions. "
― Sidney Sheldon , Tell Me Your Dreams
104 " I hope I didn’t wake "
― Sidney Sheldon , If Tomorrow Comes (Tracy Whitney, #1)
105 " Fate will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it. "
106 " 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 , The Best Laid Plans
107 " 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 , Master of the Game
108 " My ancestors survived famine and plagues and floods, and I’m going to survive this. "
109 " 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 , Windmills of the Gods
110 " 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 , The Stars Shine Down
111 " Old money’s motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money’s motto was, If you have it, flaunt it. "
112 " Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time. "
113 " It’s indecent for anyone to be this happy, Tracy Whitney thought. "
114 " What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action. "
115 " 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. "
116 " sweeping "
― Sidney Sheldon , Sidney Sheldon 3-Book Collection: If Tomorrow Comes, Nothing Lasts Forever, The Best Laid Plans
117 " My definition of a liberal is a man who has his ass firmly stuck in clouds of cotton wool. "
118 " Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are. "
― Sidney Sheldon , Nothing Lasts Forever
119 " 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. "
120 " Men! It would be a wonderful world if we could live without the bastards. Or maybe it wouldn’t. Who knows? "