Muad Dib Quotes

#1. He thought: Jessica, mother of Muad'Dib and grandmother of these royal twins, returns to our planet today. Why does she end her self-imposed exile at this time? Why does she leave the softness and security of Caladan for the dangers of Arrakis?

Frank Herbert

#2. Muad'dib rules everywhere," he said.
"Arrakis is not my destination," she insisted.
"Arrakis is the destination of everyone," he said.

Frank Herbert

#3. How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?" Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. "We call that one muad'dib," Stilgar said. Jessica

Frank Herbert

#4. We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

Frank Herbert

#5. Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

Frank Herbert

#6. The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?
Muad'Dib

Frank Herbert

#7. Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!

Frank Herbert

#8. To quote from another gospel, DUNE by Frank Herbert, 'Fear is the mind-killer.' ... Jesus was the original Muad'dib.

Stephen Colbert

#9. There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles.
Muad'Dib

Frank Herbert

#10. It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.

Frank Herbert

#11. 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

#12. I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?

Frank Herbert

#13. Once more the drama begins.' - The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne.

Frank Herbert

#14. There was a man so wise,
He jumped into
A sandy place
And burnt out both his eyes!
And when he knew his eyes were gone,
He offered no complaint.
He summoned up a vision
And made himself a saint.
-Children's Verse
from History of Muad'dib

Frank Herbert

#15. She didn't like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad'Dib as Him.

Frank Herbert

#16. Is that the name you wish, Muad'Dib?" Stilgar asked. "I am an Atreides," Paul whispered, and then louder: "It's not right that I give up entirely the name my father gave me. Could I be known among you as Paul-Muad'Dib?" "You are Paul-Muad'Dib," Stilgar said. And

Frank Herbert

#17. My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.

Frank Herbert

#18. In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus.

Crystal Mary Lindsey

#19. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Frank Herbert

#20. Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Paul Tsongas

#21. Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

Paul Prudhomme

#22. I don't really believe you are married unless you have children. And people who only have one kid don't really have kids.

Andrew Gurland

#23. It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Thomas Reid

#24. I went to a number of women's groups and said: 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women.

Mitt Romney

#25. You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.

Frank Herbert

#26. [A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.

Edmund Crispin

#27. I'd gone from unapologetically commit-o-phobic to rom-com heroine in a few months

Maris Black

#28. What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Frank Herbert

#29. It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.

Deborah Eisenberg

#30. I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?

Woody Allen

#31. Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.

Ben Midland

#32. Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"!

Bertolt Brecht

#33. The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

Michael Korda

#34. There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Frank Herbert

#35. I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.

Saoirse Ronan

#36. We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.

Stephen Fry