Quotes from Dan Brown

like corks. To Langdon's surprise, dozens of gondolas were making this same crossing. Their slender hulls—at nearly forty feet in length and almost fourteen hundred pounds—appeared remarkably stable in the rough waters. Each vessel was piloted by a sure-footed gondolier

Langdon suddenly wondered if

I have witnessed evil for which there is no absolution!

sometimes to find the truth, one must move mountains.

Stone dead," Ferris

Quite simply, the goal of terrorism is to create terror and fear. Fear undermines faith in the establishment. It weakens the enemy from within . . . causing unrest in the masses. Write this down. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's façade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith." Loss of faith . . . Is

Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.

Al diablo con este auditorio vacío", declara. "Mi hotel está aquí al lado. ¡Vayamos al bar!".

Marta le flaquearon las piernas. Esa mañana había oído en las noticias que un alto cargo municipal no identificado había muerto la noche anterior, pero no se le había ocurrido que pudiera ser Ignazio.

Any life-form advanced enough to travel light-years through interstellar space would have nothing to learn by probing the rectums of farmers in Kansas. Nor would these life-forms need to morph into reptiles and infiltrate governments in order to take over earth. Any life-form with the technology to travel to earth would require no subterfuge or subtlety to dominate us instantaneously.

Langdon joined her at the book, peering down at the text. Now that he knew the line, he was able to make out the faint handwritten letters: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns.

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency

According to the study, the vast majority of university students, after clicking on a depressing news article about arctic ice melt or species extinction, would quickly exit that page in favor of something trivial that purged their minds of fear; favorite choices included sports highlights, funny cat videos, and celebrity gossip.

Dupa cum observa odata Napoleon? ,,Ce e istoria altceva decat o poveste convenabil ticluita? Prin insasi natura ei, istoria e totdeauna o relatare subiectiva.

If this discovery is confirmed, it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into our universe that science has ever uncovered. Its implications are as far-reaching and awe-inspiring as can be imagined. Even as it promises answers to some of our oldest questions, it poses still others even more fundamental. President Bill Clinton, in a press conference following a discovery known as ALH84001 on August 7, 1996

He couldn't imagine how lonely it must be for a child to be so profoundly different.

man's oldest spiritual quest was to perceive his own entanglement, to sense his own interconnection with all things. He has always wanted to become 'one' with the universe

Sometimes a change in perspective is all it takes to see the light.

although most of us have forgotten it is actually 'at-one-ment' we're seeking.

suit an appreciative nod. "Very fashionable. You look almost Italian." VIEW OF THE SECOND-STORY BALCONY, THE HALL OF THE FIVE HUNDRED, PALAZZO VECCHIO Langdon's mouth went bone dry, but

Los lugares más oscuros del Infierno están reservados para aquellos que mantienen su neutralidad en tiempos de crisis moral".

In a military maneuver worthy of the CIA, Pope Clement issued secret sealed orders to be opened simultaneously by his soldiers all across Europe on Friday, October 13 of 1307.

She knew the computer's processors auditioned thirty million keys per second – one hundred billion per hour. If TRANSLTR was still counting, that meant the key had to be enormous – over ten billion digits long.

When we as a species abandon our trust in the power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faith . . . all faiths . . . are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable . . . With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth.