It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
To fly or not to fly, that's the question.
Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
What really matters is what you believe.
Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.
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.
Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet and threw a clipboard at the man's head.
Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
Wisdom is in books,... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.
Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.
We all fear what we do not understand.
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.
Don't spend...but mend yourself...
Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?
Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.
One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis ... Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.
Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.
Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?
In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.
Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear?
Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.
Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.
You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.
My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.
Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.
Forgiveness is God's greatest gift
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.
Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle.
No love is greater than that of a father for His son.
Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.
He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon - the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.
Despite Langdon's six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.
Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.
Her eyes were olive green--incisive and clear.
Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell
Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.
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?
There's just no substitute for the truth.
Learning the truth has become my life's love
Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.
Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.
One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.
When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.
Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.
Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think.
The coyly nicknamed explosive Key4 had been developed by Special Forces specifically for opening locked doors with minimal collateral damage. Consisting primarily of cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine with a diethylhexyl plasticizer, it was essentially a piece of C-4 rolled into paper-thin sheets for insertion into doorjambs. In the case of the library's reading room, the explosive had worked perfectly.
Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.
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