Quotes from Dan Brown

T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.

tonight Ã¢â'¬Â¦ for it's the beginning of forever.' 

I grew up Catholic. I know sin.

The man was no stranger to deception, and yet his heart was pounding wildly now. He took another deep, throbbing breath. You've been deceiving people for years, he reminded himself. It's what you do.

You're telling me that CERN dug out millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?

I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements.

The early Greeks had to look back centuries to study ancient culture, but we need look back only a single generation to find those who lived without the technologies we take for granted today.

However, when they try to look back to the instant when the Big Bang occurred—where T equals zero—the mathematics all goes mad, describing what seems to be a mystical speck of infinite heat and infinite density.

I know you want to run, but I'm not going to let you. Sooner or later you need to start trusting someone.

Langdon always ended this lecture with a reminder that Arab culture had also given mankind the word al-kuhl—the favorite beverage of Harvard freshmen—known as alcohol.

The beauty of a living organism-be it good or evil-is that it will follow the law of God with singular vision. Be fruitful and multiply. -Bertrand Zobrist

Newton's third life childrearing colin for every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy. - Edmond Kirsch

that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is these voices—these choirs of empathy, tolerance, and compassion—that I pray one day will sing from this mountaintop.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature—the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb, the circular ripples on a pond when a fish jumps, et cetera." "Okay. And codes?" "Codes are special," Langdon said, his tone rising. "Codes, by definition, must carry information. They must do more than simply form a pattern—codes must transmit data and convey meaning.

The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

The age of religion is drawing to a close, and the age of science is dawning.

Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades"—bodiless souls trapped between life and death.

The Bridge of Sighs, he thought, recalling one of his favorite boyhood movies, A Little Romance, which was based on the legend that if two young lovers kissed beneath this bridge at sunset while the bells of St. Mark's were ringing, they would love each other forever. The

How is it that you—a highly educated woman of science—don't see? Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something in a totally new light.

Mal'akh was dragging Langdon across the living room when the congregation declared, "Amen!" Amon, Mal'akh corrected. Egypt is the cradle of your religion. The god Amon was the prototype for Zeus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ for Jupiter Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and for every modern face of God. To this day, every religion on earth shouted out a variation of his name. Amen! Amin! Aum!

Concealed within those pages, there hides a wondrous secret.

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the world will purge itself.' Ã¢â'¬Â She