Top 100 Quotes About Herbert
#1. 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
#4. The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.
Brian Herbert
#5. Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides. The
Frank Herbert
#6. Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
#7. Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]
George Herbert
#8. Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Frank Herbert
#9. 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
#10. If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
George Herbert
#12. To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
Frank Herbert
#13. 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
#15. 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
#16. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Frank Herbert
#17. (Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.
Joseph Bottum
#19. 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
#22. Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?
George Herbert
#24. 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
#26. 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
#29. 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
#30. The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.
George Herbert
#31. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#38. The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.
Herbert Hoover
#39. To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
Frank Herbert
#40. Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
Frank Herbert
#41. Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
A.P. Herbert
#42. The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.
George Herbert
#43. For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.
George Herbert
#44. A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!
Frank Herbert
#45. Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
George Herbert
#46. He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
George Herbert
#47. The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Herbert Hoover
#48. She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the empty spaces in her mind.
Brian Herbert
#51. Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity.
Frank Herbert
#53. The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
Herbert Marcuse
#55. Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.
Frank Herbert
#56. It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
Herbert Spencer
#59. Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I,
Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief-
Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die
Mocking at all that passes their belief.
Herbert Trench
#63. The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Herbert Spencer
#64. I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
Herbert Simon
#65. When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
[When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]
George Herbert
#66. In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
Herbert Hoover
#68. Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Herbert Hoover
#70. Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty? Jessica
Frank Herbert
#72. About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
#73. Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.
Herbert Marcuse
#74. Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.
Herbert M. Shelton
#75. Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power. This
Frank Herbert
#76. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
Frank Herbert
#77. Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
Herbert Marcuse
#79. For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent ... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
Herbert Schiller
#80. In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
Frank Herbert
#81. It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. - GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It
Brian Herbert
#83. The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress ... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.
Herbert Benson
#85. Life was a little like that, I guess. We'd spend so long chasing after something already in motion, always out of reach and calling, just ahead.
Mackenzie Herbert
#86. Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
Herbert Hoover
#87. Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
David Herbert Donald
#89. An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
George Herbert
#90. The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
Herbert Croly
#91. This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.
Frank Herbert
#92. To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
George Herbert
#94. If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
George Herbert
#95. The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.
Herbert Read
#96. In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
[In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]
George Herbert
#97. That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
Frank Herbert
#98. In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Hoover
#99. The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But
Frank Herbert
#100. For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.
Herbert Stein
