Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.
This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.
There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.
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?
Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.
Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths
Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.
Don't spend...but mend yourself.
Darkness feeds on apathy.
Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.
Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?
Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks
Everyone loves a conspiracy.
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.
I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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.
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'!
I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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.
As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.
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