Quotes About Herbert Matter

#1. Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

Herbert

#2. American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Herbert Croly

#3. If you love something, the work will be just fine.

Herbert Matter

#4. Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in a similar Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of quantum reality because everything we touch turns to matter.

Nick Herbert

#5. The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Brian Herbert

#6. Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

Noel Coward

#7. I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

Frank Herbert

#8. What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Frank Herbert

#9. All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

Herbert Hoover

#10. No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Frank Herbert

#11. The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Herbert Spencer

#12. Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.

Herbert Spencer

#13. When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Herbert Croly

#14. The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

Frank Herbert

#15. Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

Herbert Marcuse

#16. Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.

George Herbert

#17. You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.

Herbert Lom

#18. My child, human love is an infinite resource. No matter how many times it is expended, whether stolen or given away, love can grow again - like a flower from a bulb - and fill your heart.

Brian Herbert

#19. Looking around, Ishmael noted that the humans in control here didn't seem to care. Why is their religious fervor acceptable, while ours is a matter of scorn?

Brian Herbert

#20. If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.

Frank Herbert

#21. A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

Brian Herbert

#22. The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

Herbert Butterfield

#23. Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

A.P. Herbert

#24. We are animals, yet are expected to be so much more. Although honor requires us to make altruistic decisions, even acting for the benefit of other people keeps coming back to self-interest, no matter how much one attempts to conceal it.

Brian Herbert

#25. There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it.

Frank Herbert

#26. Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

Frank Herbert

#27. The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only so long as he can keep it, and that the one who takes it away from him has not done anything wrong, but has merely demonstrated his smartness.

Herbert Asbury

#28. Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Herbert Hoover

#29. If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no
matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

Brian Herbert

#30. The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

Frank Herbert

#31. A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

Frank Herbert