Quotes from Frank Herbert
If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets," he murmured. It was his mother's expression and he always used it when he felt the blackness of tomorrow on him. Then he thought what an odd expression that was to be taking to a planet that had never known seas or fishes.
- Frank Herbert
Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.
- Frank Herbert
A crime in one society can be a moral requirement in another society.
- Frank Herbert
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
- Frank Herbert
If you stay high in the storm you'll survive.
- Frank Herbert
Because we cannot imagine a thing, that doesn't exclude it from reality.
- Frank Herbert
The absence of a thing, can be as deadly as the presence.
- Frank Herbert
How excellent! And if you handed one of them the complete scenario of his life, the unvarying dialogue up to his moment of death- what a hellish gift that's be. What other boredom! Every living instant he be replaying what he knew absolutely. No deviation. He could anticipate every response every utterance over and over and over and over and over and…
- Frank Herbert
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
- Frank Herbert
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
- Frank Herbert
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
- Frank Herbert
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- Frank Herbert