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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 33061a2 | We humans exist on hope. It's what separates us from thinking machines. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 26d930d | If we give up our humanity to fight the machines, Zufa, then Omnius has already won! | Brian Herbert | ||
| 7eff7b1 | Serena grew angry. How could that representative worry about petty price tags, when the ultimate cost was so much higher? "We will all pay--in blood--if we do not do this. We must strengthen the League and the human species." | Brian Herbert | ||
| 5bc4264 | Do you not have tribes? Rivalries?" "Of course," said Taref. "All of us do. I am the son of a Naib." "The third son of a Naib." Lillis said. "Because of my two older brothers, I will never rule the tribe." | Brian Herbert Kevin Anderson | ||
| f16dbce | Vor stared for a moment at his own reflection in the familiar mirrored face, remembering some of the stupid jokes his friend had told and the innovative military games they had played together. Seurat had never harmed him in any way. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 8aae3c8 | The robot responded with surprising sarcasm. "I am aware of the various bodily orifices humans possess. Therefore, I invite you to take a power tool and insert it where the--" | Brian Herbert | ||
| acbd64d | Poritrin nobles professed to follow gentle, bucolic Navachristianity, but their core beliefs did not extend to their daily lives. They had their festivals, and embraced religious trappings, but the Poritrin upper classes did little to demonstrate their true faith. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 60d67d0 | Savant, doesn't it strike you as somewhat...hypocritical that we fight to keep humans free from the domination of machines, while at the same time some of our own League Worlds use slaves? | Brian Herbert | ||
| 0a6bc3f | Tell her nothing is impossible. Tell her that love is what separates humans from other living creatures, not hatred. Not violence-- | Brian Herbert | ||
| cc79bb3 | in preservation canisters, so they could be installed into any cymek walker. Now | Brian Herbert | ||
| e813b2f | I can envision calculations all the way to infinity," she said, as if in a trance. "I don't have to write them down." | Brian Herbert | ||
| 9583611 | environment where students could develop their mental skills through hours of uninterrupted meditation. Gilbertus had chosen this inhospitable area with a specific purpose in mind. He believed the danger and isolation would help focus the | Brian Herbert | ||
| 146e804 | Do you know about the horrors during the Time of Titans? Or the Hrethgir Rebellions?" "I've read my father's memoirs in great detail--" "I don't mean Agamemnon's propaganda. Have you learned the real history?" | Brian Herbert | ||
| 0417004 | I intend to create a new work of art, all my own. A still life, of sorts. You three will be vital parts of the process. Rejoice in your good fortune." In the sterile environment of the laboratory, with the cold assistance of his personal robot guards, Erasmus proceeded to vivisect the trio of victims, oblivious to their screams. "I want to get to the heart of the matter," he quipped, "the lifeblood of it." | Brian Herbert | ||
| eeab921 | You will have to rebuild an entire city." Xavier looked at Rhengalid with little sympathy. "But you can do that only because you are alive and free." | Brian Herbert | ||
| 680aa7c | It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. --GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It | Brian Herbert | ||
| 2f21c2a | Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he'd been taught all his life. "I am the pinnacle of humanity--a trustee of Omnius, the son of General Agamemnon." | Brian Herbert | ||
| 8cb3ed0 | Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden. | Brian Herbert | ||
| eda9f11 | A human captive had fought the machines! She had destroyed a robot with her own hands! Amazed, they called out her name. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 11076d6 | Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risks is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. --Planetologist Pardot Kynes, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet | Brian Herbert | ||
| 6215a22 | The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. --Bene Gesserit Precept I | Brian Herbert | ||
| 9220b9e | The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make ... and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change. --Guild Bank Annals, Philosophical Register | Brian Herbert | ||
| dc3eb48 | Music should make the spirit soar, take the breath away, touch the soul. Your work was just...pleasant tones, adequately performed. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 628a519 | My father lied to me! He distorted the events, taking credit, hiding the extent of the brutality and suffering--even Omnius knew it. On the other hand, Serena had told him the truth. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 702e6db | Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer. --LIET-KYNES, | Brian Herbert | ||
| ceb5f29 | The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change. --Guild Bank Annals, Philosophical Register | Brian Herbert | ||
| df5388a | Politics is a tangled web, an intricate labyrinth, an ever-shifting kaleidoscopic pattern. And it is not pretty. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 425d406 | Consciousness and logic are not reliable standards. --COGITORS, Fundamental Postulate | Brian Herbert | ||
| c4db43c | Human imagination is a powerful thing. It can be a sanctuary from difficult times, a catalyst to change society, or the impetus to create marvelous works of art. On the other hand, an overabundance of imagination can inspire paranoia that impairs one's ability to interact with reality. --Suk School Manual, Psychological Studies | Brian Herbert | ||
| 01234d5 | The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons." | words-as-weapons | Brian Herbert | |
| 84b395a | I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not return one to stone. -- Oscar Wilde, letter to Louis Wilkinson (December 28, 1898) in the beginning of the book | oscar-wilde oxford | Julia Whelan | |
| fab6132 | They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing them a magical crossover...They had spoken often, with rueful honesty, of how the books they read represented escape, offered pathways to literary landscapes that intrigued and engrossed...From childhood on, books had been the hot air balloons that carried them above the angry mutterings of quarreling paren.. | literature reading | Gloria Goldreich | |
| 8c1aaa3 | It was a pleasure to watch them eating jalebis, always entreating the other to eat some more--the beauty of love that had mellowed in the evening of life. | Narendra Jadhav | ||
| a196165 | Caste system is the most brilliantly administered scam in history. | equality justice | Narendra Jadhav | |
| 00b2396 | Even a man persuaded that the great powers of the heavens loved him above all else could starve. However powerful a story might be, it had its limits, and the brute material world didn't listen or care what priests and bankers told it. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 81ff9cd | Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows. | ww1 | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | |
| 84d1d1c | schmoozes the customers, brings light and warmth to the | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| a949b25 | What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One needed the agility of a wild cat, and the will-power of a Napoleon to manage to knit in a crowded tube, but women managed it! If they succeeded in obtaining a seat, out came a miserable little strip of shrimp pink and click, click went the pins.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3f83fad | How did you find out?" "I listened. I lied. The normal things anyone would do who wanted to know something hidden." | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 46650c8 | What of the hundreds of faceless men on the streets looking for work, trying to pick up the threads of family life, hoping that the dying had made a better Britain, and finding they were lost in it. Faceless men...People stepped around them now, ignored the brave boy who'd marched away to glory and now begged on the street because a one-armed man couldn't work. He thought sometimes, in the dark corners of his mind, that the dead were the lu.. | Charles Todd | ||
| 02fd6d5 | No one ever stepped forward to protect me, Inspector. I wonder why I should feel any driving sense of duty to protect anyone else. Let me tell you something about love. It can be very cruel and very greedy. I've had done with it. And that has given me a freedom that I cherish. | Charles Todd | ||
| e40c9e1 | Ye ken, it's the living and no' the dead who know the truth. The dead still believe it was worth dying for." -- Charles Todd, Racing the Devil" | Charles Todd | ||
| a6ee41d | The urban strategist Todd Litman summed up zoning's effect thus: "It seemed that segregation was just the natural working of the free market, the result of the sum of countless individual choices about where to live. But the houses were single--and their residents white--because of the invisible hand of government." | Charles Montgomery | ||
| b20065c | It isn't actually a question of guilt or innocence, is it? It's a matter of what the jury believes, once we've told them what evidence there is on either side. Given the proper evidence, we could probably convict God. Without it, Lucifer himself would walk free! | Charles Todd |