The Lost Symbol Quotes

#1. I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

Dan Brown

#2. Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.

Wayne Dyer

#3. (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

Richard Wurmbrand

#5. The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

Dan Brown

#6. Oh my love,
pure and divine love,
I want to drown in you
and then get lost,
to find myself again and again,
as a symbol and source of love,
pure, blissful and divine.

Debasish Mridha

#7. That's my credo - My work is play. I don't complain about work. I enjoy it. I like the feeling of being able to lay down at night and you're so doggone tired, you're just hoping to get undressed before you fall asleep.

Buck Brannaman

#8. Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Dan Brown

#9. The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

Dan Brown

#10. For a moment in time, a man knew me for who I was and, without reservation, loved me for who I was. How can I now live knowing no one will ever see me again in such a perfect light? Hear me as I wish to be heard? Love me as [he] loved me?

Robin Maxwell

#11. [T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

Dick Armey

#12. One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

Dan Brown

#13. If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.

Dan Brown

#14. I fret for Sylvia.
She appears anchored
to the idea of sinking,
which is silly when she so clearly
soars above almost everyone.

Stephanie Hemphill

#15. Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Michael Hutchence

#16. All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God ...
Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

Dan Brown

#17. I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.

Michael Gove

#18. What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

Julius Charles Hare

#19. Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. Let your ways and actions be in honor of Christ

Sunday Adelaja

#21. But it has finally hit me: she is neither a concept nor a symbol nor a metaphor. She actually exists: she has warm flesh and a spirit that moves. I never should have lost sight of that warmth and that movement.

Haruki Murakami

#22. Too much champagne?"
"Maybe."
"Silly girl," she said, looping her arm through mine. "There's no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.

Leigh Bardugo

#23. Death is not an ending, but a symbol of movement along the path upon which we are all traveling. As it may be painful to lose contact with the physical aspect of one we love, the Spirit can never be lost. We have been and always will be a part of each other.

John Denver

#24. Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964.

Rick Perlstein

#25. The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

Jeff Miller