Quotes from Dan Brown

My friends,as you can see,the chaos of the world has an underlying order

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something!

Did you mount her? the agent asked, looking over. Langdon glanced up, certain he had misunderstood. I beg your pardon?

Or are we?" Langdon intoned overhead. "We consider ourselves modern rational individuals, and yet our species' most widespread religion includes a whole host of magical claims—humans inexplicably rising from the dead, miraculous virgin births, vengeful gods that send plagues and floods, mystical promises

Bajo la antigua Rosllin el Grial espera... Por maestros ornado con amoroso esmero. La espada y el cáliz guardan su puerta. Reposa por fin, bajo un estrellado cielo.

Langdon nodded absently. Symbologists often remarked that France—a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short—could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.

true power stemmed not from physical strength but from political leverage.

As Langdon spoke, the ceiling flashed well-known Christian images of the Resurrection, the Virgin Mary, Noah's Ark, the parting of the Red Sea, heaven, and hell. "So just for

As you have witnessed on the chapel floor,Mr Langdon,there are many way to see simple things.

Faukman hung up the phone, shaking his head in disbelief. Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.   Inside

You sat in that monetary's sacrosanct library and told a bishop that his entire belief system is delusional? Langdon exclaimed. Did you expect him to serve you tea and cake?- p.56

There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudi was once quoted as saying, and indeed, there were very few straight lines seen his work either.

Jorge Santayana—" " 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

Bajo la antigua Roslin el Grial espera... Por maestros ornado con amoroso esmero. La espada y el cáliz guardan su puerta. Reposa por fin, bajo un estrellado cielo

Far below, the ocean waves shimmered, the icebergs looking like diamonds sewn into a dark sequin mesh.

Fear of being judged by an omniscient deity always helps inspire benevolent behavior.

In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning.

Tragically, on account of religious dogma, millions of people believe they already know the answers to these big questions. And because not every religion offers the same answers, entire cultures end up warring over whose answers are correct, and which version of God's story is the One True Story.

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.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

To this day, the number forty—quaranta in Italian—served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not now.

cetera. The symbols of death inspire Masons to ponder how better to lead their lives while on this earth.

Vittoria had heard Kohler's Science-as-God lecture before, and she never bought it. Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.