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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9a666ca | We came to the corner, waited for the light, and crossed. I had no idea where we were going. I said, "I didn't realize you were so depressed." "I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em all carry it off, and you don't c.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 5858e32 | I am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have reached the age of grief. Others arrive there sooner. Almost no one arrives much later. I don't think it is the years themselves, or the disintegration of the body. Most of our bodies are better taken care of and better looking than ever. What it is, is what we know, now that in spite of ourselves we have stopped to think about it. It is not only that we know that love ends, childre.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 382ceb4 | Can you remember your first taste of spice?" "It tasted like cinnamon." "But never twice the same," he said. "It's like life--it presents a different face each time you take it. Some hold that the spice produces a learned-flavor reaction. The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable--slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0613930 | The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable--slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 58c706e | Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat." | harkonnen mentat piter-de-vries | Frank Herbert | |
| c178294 | Come, come," the Baron said. "We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke." The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. "Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise." "Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron." | dune harkonnen piter-de-vries | Frank Herbert | |
| 50e4a86 | Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ce1f78b | If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4f92b2b | They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encountered. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8c3ce13 | Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| 818b894 | They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 242c81d | Even in the most barren wasteland, a flower always grows. Recognize this, and learn to adapt to your surroundings. -Dr. Bryce Haynes (planetary ecologist assigned to study Duneworld) | Frank Herbert | ||
| ec4f39a | Stilgar put a hand on Idaho's shoulder. "All men are interlopers, old friend." | Frank Herbert | ||
| b38cc22 | But, putting on a stillsuit, he put on the desert. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 2ebf506 | It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests which move the hands of God. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 64befd0 | Limits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which a generation may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate which set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe climatic provinces, fluctuations of annual weather and, occasionally may observe such things as "This is a colder year than I've ever known." Such things are sensible. But humans are seldom alerted to the shifting average through a great span of y.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 2940113 | The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ef3e0a1 | That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought--the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 772fd5e | Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know what it is you learned from that lovely Dune planet - waste not? True, Baron? -Piter De Vries | mentat piter-de-vries | Frank Herbert | |
| 229e648 | One cannot have a single thing without its opposite. | Frank Herbert | ||
| a25f594 | Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err. -Baron Vladimir | dune harkonnen piter-de-vries | Frank Herbert | |
| c963c0b | Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 22439b2 | my deal's the only one in town | Frank Herbert | ||
| a14136d | What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0ea48a0 | Nie wolno sie bac. Strach zabija dusze. Strach to mala smierc, a wielkie unicestwienie. Stawie mu czolo. Niechaj przejdzie po mnie i przeze mnie. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 41418ca | The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8acfa9a | A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. -- FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes | Brian Herbert | ||
| cbe3aca | Each of us is the enemy [...] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 162a445 | QUESTION: Who governs the governors? ANSWER: Entropy. | Frank Herbert | ||
| aeadf96 | He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b331178 | Whirling silence settled around Jessica. Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it. She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings. Like an abrupt revelation--the curtains whipped away--she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself. She was the mote, yet not the mote. | Frank Herbert | ||
| cac4982 | Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for! | Frank Herbert | ||
| bb1a48c | The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0a17de0 | Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely." "That's" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 25714f2 | he thought. And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't the future? Could it be that the oracle the future? | dune-chronicles dune-messiah paul-atreides prediction | Frank Herbert | |
| e3c78cc | Is consciousness merely a special form of hallucination? | Frank Herbert | ||
| 1f0fa17 | And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?" | Frank Herbert | ||
| d9b3660 | A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." | possibilities prophecy time | Frank Herbert | |
| e022d4c | People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0cb892c | Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake. | Frank Herbert | ||
| a1d2c7d | We will never forgive and we will never forget. | forgive never | Frank Herbert | |
| 93ffb41 | Grief is the price of victory, | Frank Herbert | ||
| 784b009 | Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You're stronger. Trust your stillsuit." She" | Frank Herbert | ||
| e0120b2 | When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. | Frank Herbert |