Quotes from Frank Herbert
Humans can balance on strange surfaces, Odrade said. Even on unpredictable ones. It's called 'getting in tune.' Great musicians know it. Surfers I watched when I was a child on Gammu, they knew it. Some waves throw you but you're prepared for that. You climb back up and go at it once more.
- Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.
- Frank Herbert
It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment.
- Frank Herbert
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life
- Frank Herbert
I salve my own conscience. I give him the surcease of religion before betraying him. Thus may I say to myself that he has gone where I cannot go.
- Frank Herbert
Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.
- Frank Herbert
Better a dry morsel and quietness than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
- Frank Herbert
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. The uncertain rabbits had to be exposed, made to run for their burrows. Else how could you control them and breed them?
- Frank Herbert
A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.
- Frank Herbert
The man without emotions is the one to fear. But deep emotions…ah, now, those can be bent to your needs.
- Frank Herbert
What do you mean—desire, data and doubt?" "Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.
- Frank Herbert
A time of love and a time of grief.
- Frank Herbert