Dan Brown Quotes
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451. “When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.”

— Dan Brown

452. “Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain.”

— Dan Brown

453. “You’re telling me that CERN dug out millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?”

— Dan Brown

454. “History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.”

— Dan Brown

455. “Everything decayed, the perfectly ordered crystal eventually turned into random particles of dust.”

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456. “It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague’s wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty – quaranta in Italian – served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.”

— Dan Brown

457. “Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onboard and dumb everything down for them.”

— Dan Brown

458. “Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.”

— Dan Brown

459. “A little faith can do wonders, a little faith.”

— Dan Brown

460. “Sienna expertly maneuvered the Trike through.”

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461. “Real world signore. You’re in it tonight.”

— Dan Brown

462. “If a Creator designed our universe to support life, he did a terrible job. In the vast, vast majority of the cosmos, life would die instantly from lack of atmosphere, gamma-ray bursts, deadly pulsars, and crushing gravitational fields. Believe me, the universe is no Garden of Eden.”

— Dan Brown

463. “This is the future I would be giving my child?”

— Dan Brown

464. “Let me out, or she dies!”

— Dan Brown

465. “For a thousand years,” Langdon continued, “legends of this secret have been passed on. The entire collection of documents, its power, and the secret it reveals have become known by a single name – Sangreal.”

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466. “Even respected science channels were doing it, asking their viewers: “Is It Possible That This Temple in Peru Was Built by Ancient Aliens?”

— Dan Brown

467. “Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe creates and reproduces in order to dissipate energy.”

— Dan Brown

468. “Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.”

— Dan Brown

469. “It is a messy process for a culture to abandon its dieties. Sprititual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most – our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed. – Robert Langdon.”

— Dan Brown

470. “They had fallen onto a section of the glacier that had already begun its inevitable plunge to the sea.”

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471. “I am not questioning God’s power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!”

— Dan Brown

472. “The age of religion is drawing to a close, and the age of science is dawning.”

— Dan Brown

473. “That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.”

— Dan Brown

474. “Secrets interest us all, I think.”

— Dan Brown

475. “Hell, no. A church is the one thing we don’t have. Physics is the religion around here. Use the Lord’s name in vain all you like,′ he laughed, ’just don’t slander any quarks or mesons.”

— Dan Brown

476. “You came back because you’ve been running your whole life, and you finally realized you can’t run anymore.”

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477. “Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage... an assimilated historical record of man’s quest to understand the divine.”

— Dan Brown

478. “They will prove nothing except that we viewers will watch anything if it’s sufficiently hyped.”

— Dan Brown

479. “I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.”

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480. “I don’t care if he’s the prince,” she fired back.”

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481. “What’s the matter?″ She immediately started laughin. ″What’s the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!”

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482. “The promises of science have not been kept. Promises of efficiency and simplicity have bred nothing but pollution and chaos.”

— Dan Brown

483. “The fog began to lift. Langdon felt a wave of relief. He hated hospitals, but they certainly beat aliens harvesting his testicles.”

— Dan Brown

484. “Fugitives were predictable the first hour after escape. They always needed the same thing. Travel. Lodging. Cash. The Holy Trinity.”

— Dan Brown

485. “As we get closer to critical hour, we will make critical decisions.”

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486. “Kirsch planned to go public with this presentation in a stunning, meticulously choreographed event. When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.”

— Dan Brown

487. “Faukman stared at the receiver and shook his head. Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.”

— Dan Brown

488. “And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq.”

— Dan Brown

489. “New World Order,” Langdon repeated, “based on scientific enlightenment. They called it their Luciferian Doctrine.”

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490. “I know you want to run, but I’m not going to let you. Sooner or later you need to start trusting someone.”

— Dan Brown

491. “Proof, she knew, was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made. Remove all the base assumptions. Start again.”

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492. “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.”

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493. “I am a cosmic accident, and soon I will be dead.”

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494. “As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympic Games still followed the cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment – its five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games’ spirit of inclusion and harmony.”

— Dan Brown