Dan Brown
I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.Collection: Heaven
…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.Collection: Sunset
In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.Collection: Men
Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.Collection: Growing Up
Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.Collection: Religious
Nothing in Christianity is original.Collection: Christianity
From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.Collection: Beautiful
Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.Collection: Stars
This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.Collection: Inspirational
Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.Collection: Eye
If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!Collection: Difficult
Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.Collection: Relax
the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truthsCollection: Ideas
It is always darkest before the dawn.Collection: Dawn
When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.Collection: Memories
Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?Collection: Hero
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'!Collection: World
Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.Collection: Design
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now.Collection: Country
God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"Collection: Opposites
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.Collection: Tragedy
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.Collection: Inspirational
Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?Collection: Demand
Secrets interest us all, I think.Collection: Thinking
Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.Collection: Creative
Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?Collection: Yoga
Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante AlighieriCollection: Clock Is Ticking
But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.Collection: Believe
Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.Collection: Roots
Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.Collection: Mind
Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.Collection: Angel
There's just no substitute for the truth.Collection: Substitutes
Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin LutherCollection: Men
But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?Collection: Men
It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.Collection: Heart
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.Collection: Spiritual
Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universeCollection: World
Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.Collection: Government
I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.Collection: Believe
Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… 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. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.Collection: Faith
A little faith can do wonders.Collection: Littles
Of course you can't stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion-good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.Collection: Thinking
Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.Collection: Pyramids
Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn...Collection: About Growing Up
The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold.Collection: Stories
I don’t read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of ‘The Exorcist.’ It was the first and last horror book I’ve ever opened.Collection: Reading