Quotes from Frank Herbert
Understand yourself, Piter. You want her because she was a Duke's woman, a symbol of his power—beautiful, useful, exquisitely trained for her role.
- Frank Herbert
Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change.
- Frank Herbert
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is an agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
- Frank Herbert
Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities
- Frank Herbert
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
- Frank Herbert
Mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.
- Frank Herbert
Rules are often an excuse to ignore compassion.
- Frank Herbert
We are one life reaching out into a dark future.
- Frank Herbert
What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that.
- Frank Herbert
I already have good administrators—uncorruptible, sagacious, philosophical and open about their errors, quick to see decisions.
- Frank Herbert
they were non-thinkers, attaching themselves to any fancied power for the identity which this gave them. Without a reflection from her they were empty. Thus, they were dangerous.
- Frank Herbert
Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.
- Frank Herbert