Top 100 De Vries Quotes
#1. 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
Frank Herbert
#2. Being Proud is Pleasing Your Weakness.
Not Strength.
It is Selfish.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Jos de Vries
September 11, 2016
Petra Hermans
#3. The wise and decent priest Jos de Vries
makes me smile by heart and soul.
Petra Hermans
November 4, 2016
Petra Hermans
#4. How to know Confidence
is how to know who you are.
Petra Hermans and Jos de Vries
Friends Forever
October 8, 2016
Petra Hermans
#5. 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."
-Piter De Vries
Frank Herbert
#6. Brilliant, Piter! I'm glad I didn't execute you all those times when you were so annoying.'
'So am I,' de Vries said.
Brian Herbert
#7. Looking closely at de Vries, he added, 'You are a very ugly man, Piter. Even with my disease, I'm still prettier than you.
Brian Herbert
#8. He never said I was welcome
Jos de Vries
Petra Hermans
Petra Hermans
#9. Jos de Vries
U Are The Greatest Gift God Gave me
Petra
Petra Hermans
#10. Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.
Peter De Vries
#11. I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.
Peter De Vries
#12. What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
Peter De Vries
#13. 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
Frank Herbert
#14. I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
Gijs De Vries
#16. Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
Gijs De Vries
#17. Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.
Peter De Vries
#18. All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
Peter De Vries
#19. Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
Peter De Vries
#20. Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he ... I swear he takes a positive delight in it."
-Baron Vladimir
Frank Herbert
#21. There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ...
Peter De Vries
#22. We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
Peter De Vries
#23. We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
Gijs De Vries
#24. The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
#25. Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.
Peter De Vries
#26. The greatest experience open to man then is the recovery of the commonplace. Coffee in the morning and whiskeys in the evening again without fear. Books to read without that shadow falling across the page.
Peter De Vries
#27. There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries
#29. Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
Peter De Vries
#30. Let us hope ... that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Peter De Vries
#31. The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
Peter De Vries
#33. How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?
Peter De Vries
#34. The superficial and the slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization.
Peter De Vries
#35. We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
Peter De Vries
#37. Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.
Gijs De Vries
#38. Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
Gijs De Vries
#39. It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.
Gijs De Vries
#40. We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.
Gijs De Vries
#41. We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.
Peter De Vries
#43. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
#44. We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers.
Gijs De Vries
#46. My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries
#47. I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?
Peter De Vries
#48. If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
Gijs De Vries
#49. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
#50. Why do you need to fly so much?" she asked.
"If I don't, it'll catch up with me." The words just came out.
"What will?"
I took my hands from my face, panting. I stared out at the storm.
"Unhappiness.
Kenneth Oppel
#51. While I was now fairly demoralized, as well as aflame with the prospect of an hour in his daughter's arms, the thought of using his car to debauch his bourgeois paradise was a perfidy at which I drew the line.
Peter De Vries
#52. In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
Gijs De Vries
#53. Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.
Gijs De Vries
#54. The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a square of known perimeter, create a circle of equal circumference. According to some, in ancient Egypt, this mathematical mystery was encoded in the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Marja De Vries
#55. The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
#56. Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
Gijs De Vries
#57. There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
Gijs De Vries
#58. There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.
Gijs De Vries
#59. You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it's all a tale told by an idiot
Peter De Vries
#60. I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
Gijs De Vries
#61. There is a point when life, having showered us with jewels for nothing, begins to exact our life's blood for paste.
Peter De Vries
#62. A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
Peter De Vries
#63. We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.
Peter De Vries
#64. You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?
Peter De Vries
#65. If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
Gijs De Vries
#66. Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.
Peter De Vries
#67. In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
Gijs De Vries
#68. We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
Peter De Vries
#69. Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
#70. Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
Peter De Vries
#71. The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.
Gijs De Vries
#73. Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
Gijs De Vries
#74. Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Peter De Vries
#75. When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.
Peter De Vries
#76. We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
Peter De Vries
#77. Dead drunk and cold-sober, he wandered out into the garden in the cool of the evening, awaiting the coming of the Lord.
Peter De Vries
#79. Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
Gijs De Vries
#80. In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
Gijs De Vries
#81. I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
Peter De Vries
#82. Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.
Peter De Vries
#83. To trust someone's soul
is to love the emotions of his heart.
Petra
Petra Hermans
#84. Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
Gijs De Vries
#85. Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.
Gijs De Vries
#86. The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.
Gijs De Vries
#87. A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
Peter De Vries
#88. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries
#89. A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetric-ally once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
#90. Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
Peter De Vries
#91. So we were back in the Children's Pavilion, and there was again the familiar scene: the mothers with their nearly dead, the false face of mercy, the Slaughter of the Innocents.
Peter De Vries
#92. The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.
Gijs De Vries
#94. If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
Peter De Vries
#96. I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries
#97. Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Peter De Vries
#98. The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
Gijs De Vries
#99. What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.
Peter De Vries
#100. I am not impressed by big words,' said my uncle, who was always read enough to bandy 'predestination' and 'infralapsarianism.
Peter De Vries
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