Dan Brown Quotes - Page 7

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

The blind see what they want to see.

Darkness feeds on apathy.

Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?

Don't spend...but mend yourself.

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

We are the masters of our own universe.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.

From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.

She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.