Top 50 Herbert O'driscoll Quotes
#1. Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
Frank Herbert
#3. A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
A.P. Herbert
#5. 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
#9. If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.
Herbert Benson
#10. We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis. She
Frank Herbert
#12. The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.
Herbert Hoover
#13. To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
Frank Herbert
#15. Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How long, O Lord?
Darrell Johnson
#16. The Hinley pond-poet Herbert Miles had referred to us as "that gaggle o' geese who gossip gaily 'pon the gladdening green," and there
Alan Bradley
#17. [N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
Herbert Hoover
#18. Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble." O.C.
Frank Herbert
#19. O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.
Herbert C. Brown
#20. O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
George Herbert
#21. Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
George Herbert
#22. Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God," Herbert McCabe, O.P., quoted in Christian Century, August 21, 2013, 21. Any
Rev. Joseph A. Heim
#23. O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.
Frank Herbert
#24. I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?
Frank Herbert
#25. Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
George Herbert
#29. The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.
Brian Herbert
#30. Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides. The
Frank Herbert
#31. Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
#32. Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]
George Herbert
#33. Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Frank Herbert
#34. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover
#35. If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
George Herbert
#37. To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
Frank Herbert
#38. I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.
Herbert Spencer
#39. You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Frank Herbert
#40. In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.
Claire Tomalin
#41. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Frank Herbert
#42. (Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.
Joseph Bottum
#44. It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Frank Herbert
#46. Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?
George Herbert
#48. Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place." He glanced at the charts on the table. "And Arrakis is just another place.
Frank Herbert
#50. All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!
Frank Herbert
