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Top 120 Douglas Preston Quotes (2024 Update)

Douglas Preston Quote: “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Those who can’t do, teach, and those who can’t teach, critique.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Fortune makes promises to many, keeps them to none. Live for each day, live for the hours, since nothing is forever yours.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “It’s a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Hubris and science are incompatible.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “What was that line of Sophocles from Oedipus Rex? “How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “All power structures, by their very nature, eventually get taken over by psychopaths. Almost all governments in the world have been taken over by gifted psychopaths who have a great command of human psychology and use normal people to their advantage. This race of pathological deviants can’t feel compassion, they have no conscience. They have an insatiable need for power – and they rule the world.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “To one side, a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, polished to a gem-like brilliance, sat on a flatbed trailer, ready to be taken to its new owner. Constance looked from Pendergast to the Rolls and back again. “I really don’t need two, you know,” he said.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “A 90 percent mortality rate is high enough: It does not just kill people; it annihilates societies; it destroys languages, religions, histories, and cultures. It chokes off the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “New York City. Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Servandae vitae mendacium.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Fortuna spondet multa multis, praestat nemini, vive in dies et horas, nam proprium est nihil.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “In the distance he could see the Cape May lighthouse winking, one short, one long.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “We live in a world gone crazy for resources. Everybody on Google Earth can look at this place now. If you don’t move to protect it, it will disappear. Everything in the world is vulnerable.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Behind Hagedorn’s back, Kawakita had nicknamed the administrator “Stumpy.” Only Margo and a few of Frock’s other graduate students had known the name referred not to Hagedorn’s diminutive size, but to Stumpiniceps troglodytes, a particularly mundane kind of bottom-feeder that populated the oceans of the Carboniferous period.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “The three-million-dollar Omega-9 Parallel Processing Computer, which took up a series of large gray boxes along one wall, was now completely silent.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Inside the “cells” there were no normal-looking organelles, no nuclei, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, or Golgi bodies.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “And what better place to sow vengeance – to, quite literally, turn Gotham into a City of Endless Night?”
Douglas Preston Quote: “There’s a respected theory in astronomy called Panspermia,” Glinn finally continued. “It holds that life may have spread through the galaxy in bacteria or spores carried on meteorites or in clouds of dust. But.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “In the twentieth century the Mormon Church sent a number of well-funded archaeologists to Mexico and Central America to try to confirm the stories through site excavations. Although this resulted in valuable, high-quality research, it also proved difficult for the scientists themselves; facing clear evidence that disproved the Mormon view of history, some of the archaeologists ended up losing their faith, and a few of those who voiced their doubts were excommunicated.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “You see, when someone says “it’s impossible,’ I have this very bad habit, I can’t help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “I have often found it true that the louder a person speaks, the less they have to say.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “What was she doing working in a big museum, anyway, when she really should be tucked away in some semidetached house in the suburbs with a pack of squalling brats? Who was this husband she was allegedly so loyal to? Maybe the problem was she was rogering someone on the side already. Yes, that was probably it.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “The poison in the arrow that had struck her was, in chemical structure, like curare; it paralyzed first, killed second. It is not a merciful death: one dies fully conscious and aware of one’s surroundings.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “God give me chastity, but not right now.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “The myths of the White City, the City of the Monkey God, a Casa Blanca or Kaha Kamasa, have a similar arc: There was once a great city in the mountains struck down by a series of catastrophes, after which the people decided the gods were angry and left, leaving behind their possessions. Thereafter it was shunned as a cursed place, forbidden, visiting death on those who dared enter.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Beware the dog that does not bark, and the man who does not talk.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “He found Pendergast’s cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He’d forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “One might say that modern Honduran history began in 1873, when Jules Verne introduced Americans to the banana in his novel Around the World in 80 Days, where he praised it as being “as healthy as bread and as succulent as cream.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “There are many essential police skills they don’t teach you at the Academy,” said Pendergast. “Ass covering, as it is so charmingly termed, being the most important.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “While dead men tell no tales, their corpses often speak volumes.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “I would have to say the novel ‘War and Peace’ influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Lines from an old film came back to him unbidden: That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. You’re an improbable person, and so am I.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “This was a Third World disease attacking First World people. The world is now divided into Third and First, not Old and New. Pathogens once confined to the Third World are now making deadly inroads into the First. This is the future trajectory of disease on planet Earth.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “At the rear of the courtyard, several chairs had been placed beneath a vined trellis, and it was here Pickett at last spied Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. He was wearing a white linen suit similar to the one Pickett recalled from their meeting a fortnight or so earlier at a rooftop bar in Miami Beach. One leg was flung over the other, and beautifully made loafers of buttery leather were on his feet.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.”
Douglas Preston Quote: “Gideon,” he said, “think for a minute about the qualities that a leader – even a co-leader – is required to have. He’s a team player. He’s good at inspiring others. He’s able to hide his true feelings, put up a false front when necessary. He projects confidence at all times – even if he doesn’t feel confident. He can’t be a freelancer. And he’s certainly not a loner. Now, tell me: do any of these qualities describe you?”
Douglas Preston Quote: “I felt that I was witnessing the beginnings of a great sea change in America. I was deeply moved. Through this terrible ordeal of Vietnam, I believed, we might finally see America becoming what the founding fathers had envisioned, a nation with a moral purpose in the world and a nation that cared about all its citizens. We might see the end of the cynical Nixon-Kissinger version of realpolitik. It hasn’t turned out that way, but then we are all a little older and wiser.”
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