“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“.."consider this. It took the earth's population thousand of years-from the early dawn of man all the way to the early 1800s-to reach one billion people. Then astoundingly, it took only about a hundred years to double the population to two billion in the 1920s. After that, it took a mere fifty years for the population to double again to four billion in the 1970s. As you can imagine, we're well on track to reach eight billion very soon. Just today, the human race added another quarter-billion people to planet Earth. A quarter million. And this happens ever day-rain or shine. Currently every year er 're adding the equivalent of the entire country of Germany.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“When they face desperation... human beings become animals.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“The human mind has a primitive ego defince mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called denial.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Never forget you are a miracle”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?"
Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
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“The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—
is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the
friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and
all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties
you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no
human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with
heaven, if Christ were not there? ”
― John Piper, quote from God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
“In our five thousand years of civilization, our history has often been the handmaid of geography. We lie exactly midway between the North Pole and the Equator. We are the gateway between the Fertile Crescent and Europe, between landlocked Central Asia and the Mediterranean world and beyond that, the Atlantic. Peoples and empires have ebbed and flowed across this land. Even today sixty per cent of Europe’s gas supply either passes down the Bosphorus or runs under our very feet through pipelines. We have always been the navel of the world. Yet our favoured location by its very nature surrounded us with historical enemies; to the north, Russia to the south, the Arabs; to the east, Persia and to the west, the Red Apple itself, Europe.’
The Red Apple, the myth of Ottoman imperialism. When Mehmet the Conqueror looked out from the parapets of his fortress of Europe at Constantinople, the Red Apple had been the golden globe in the open palm of Justinian’s statue in the Hippodrome, the symbol of Roman power and ambition. Mehmet rode through the crumbling Hippodrome, the decaying streets of dying Byzantium and the Red Apple became Rome itself. The truth of the Red Apple was that it would always be unattainable, for it was the westering spirit, the globe of the setting sun itself.
‘Now we find ourselves caught between Arab oil, Russian gas and Iranian radiation and we found that the only way we could take the Red Apple was by joining it.’
This is poor stuff, Georgios thinks. You would not insult undergraduates’ intelligence with this.”
― Ian McDonald, quote from The Dervish House
“To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with the vital information presented to you via the skills and dedication of those who have gone before you down the long path to enlightenment.”
― Paula Brackston, quote from The Witch's Daughter
“Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!”
― Osho, quote from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
“Be not simply good; be good for something.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Life Without Principle
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