Quotes from Dan Brown

She had heard the panspermia theory before but didn't know its name. "The theory that a meteorite splashed into the primordial soup, bringing the first seeds of microbial life to earth.

The end will arrive very abruptly. Our experience will not be that of slowly running out of gas Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it will be more like driving off a cliff.

A paunchy man in a tuxedo and a black cowboy hat was smiling broadly at him. Great Costume! the man said, pointing to Avila's military uniform. Where does someone get something like that? Through a lifetime of service and sacrifice,he thought

What's this lunatic talking about!?

parecían estar de acuerdo. Intentó sobreponerse a esa sensación de incertidumbre. Era muy extraño

Not necessarily. Zobrist may be a pariah in the medical community, but he probably has a legion of devout fans of his ideology—people who agree that a culling is a necessary evil to save the planet. For all we know, these soldiers are trying to ensure that Zobrist's vision is realized.

symbature—a symbol used in place of a signature. Many of the early philosophers, artists, and authors signed their work with their own unique symbol or monogram rather than their name. This practice added a mysterious allure to their work and also protected them from persecution should their writings or artwork be deemed counterestablishment.

that moment, Ambra Vidal felt something stir inside her. She suddenly understood what Edmond had been saying about the energy of love and light…blossoming outward infinitely to fill the universe. Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.

Keeping information from the director of the NRO was like keeping Vatican secrets from the Pope.

By a show of hands, Kirsch continued, how many of you believe in any of the following ancient gods: Apollo? Zeus? Vulcan? He paused, and then laughed. Not a single one of you? Okay, so it appears we are all atheists with respect to those gods. He paused. I simply choose to go one god further.

Dar incertitudinea a fost întotdeauna un precursor al transform?rilor de amploare; schimbarea este în mod inevitabil precedat? de team? È™i de tulbur?ri. V? îndemn s? aveÈ›i încredere în capacitatea omului de a fi creativ È™i de a iubi, fiindc? atunci când sunt combinate, aceste dou? forÈ›e au puterea de a ilumina orice întuneric.

Florence? For a week? There's nothing else to do.' Sophie leaned forward and kissed him again, now on the lips. Their bodies came together, softly at first, and then completely. When she pulled away, her eyes were full of promise. 'Right,' Langdon managed. 'It's a date.

Let us imagine the reaction of humankind's future historians and anthropologists. With the benefit of perspective, will they look back on our religious beliefs and categorize them as the mythologies of an unenlightened time? Will they look at our gods as we look at Zeus? Will they collect our sacred scriptures and banish them to that dusty bookshelf of history?

If we could look into the human mind and read its operating system, we would find something like this." Four words appeared in giant text overhead. DESPISE CHAOS. CREATE ORDER. "This is our brain's root program

Dragostea nu este o emoÈ›ie finit?. N-avem doar o cantitate limitat? de d?ruit. Inimile noastre dejag? dragoste oricând avem nevoie de ea.

Sometimes all it takes to unravel something is a single strand.

was at the core of primeval beliefs. Its names are as old as history itself … Dharmakaya, Tao, Brahman.

Iubirea vine de pe un t?râm nep?mântean. N-o putem fabrica la cerere. ?i nici n-o putem domoli când apare. Nu st? în puterea noastr? s? alegem sau nu iubirea.

podríais decir, <>. Pero llega un momento en la historia en el que la ignorancia ya no es un defecto disculpable...; llega un momento en el que sólo la sabiduría tiene el poder de la absolución.

Portals and doorways are common symbolic constructs that represent transformative rites of passage. To look for a literal portal would be like trying to locate the actual Gates of Heaven.

When she told the agent where she wanted to take Bellami, she expected the man to look surprised, but he simply nodded and opened the passenger door for her, his cold stare revealing nothing. Sato loved professionals.

creating a new time zone for the clock, asking to share the time zone via SMS, adding a photo, and then, rather than trying to send the text, hitting the home button.

Sienna had endured no shortage of challenges in her life, and although she had trained herself to rely on intellect to overcome hardship, her current predicament had shaken her on a deeply emotional level.

When my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier