"There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you."

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Source : Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett Three Bestsellers”, p.1216, Penguin

Ken Follett

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Asking Quotes

“I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'”
“One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth and we're doing it one piece at a time For the International Space Station we do not have the privilege of assuming the Space Station is on the ground before we take it up one piece at a time. So we have to be very clever about the testing that we do and the training that we do to make sure that each mission is successful, and that each piece and each mission goes just as it's planned.”
“I love to hear the note sing.”
“Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.”
“If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.”
“We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.”
“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”
“The great person never loses a childlike spirit.”

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