Quotes from Dan Brown

La chiave, the raspy voice replied. The password.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Siapa yang akan mengawasi sang pengawas?

history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.

Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. - Buddha

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid to start a fire.

the male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought. A brief mental vacuum. A moment of clarity during which God could be glimpsed. Meditation gurus achieved similar states of thoughtlessness without sex and often described Nirvana as a never-ending spiritual orgasm.

Unfortunately, Da Vinci was a prankster who often amused himself by quietly gnawing at the hand that fed him. He incorporated in may of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was anything but Christian - tributes to his own beliefs and a subtle thumbing of his nose at the Church.

The world had gone mad, and in may parts of Europe, advertising your love of Jesus Christ was like painting a bull's-eye on the roof of your car.

He looked like a man searching for an out. Any out.

By way of fairy tales, this primeval battle of good vs. evil is ingrained into us as children through our stories: Merlin vs. Morgan le Fay, Saint George vs. the Dragon, David vs. Goliath, Snow White vs. the Witch, and even Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader.

Everyday I create myself...

until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal." "Not the Son of God?" "Right," Teabing said. "Jesus' establishment as 'the Son of God' was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.

Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

Pain is part of growing up.It's how we learn.

Iactura paucourm serva multos.

Langdon glanced over at Brüder and Sinskey, who had been staring upward and who now lowered their eyes to earth. "Jesus," Brüder said. "Yes!" Mirsat said excitedly. "And Allah and Muhammad, too!

Penjelasan paling sederhana biasanya adalah penjelasan yang paling sulit dipahami

every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Orang yang mengatakan bahwa kekuasaan tidak memunculkan kecanduan pasti belum benar-benar berkuasa

You're telling me that CERN dug out millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?" Kohler shrugged. "Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

Sofi pogleda Langdona, ne znajuci da li se vratila kroz vreme ili je krocila u ludnicu

lifers" who had been around long enough to understand the game with some perspective