Quotes of: Dune Keyword

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

God Emperor of Dune

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Chapterhouse: Dune

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

Chapterhouse: Dune

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

God Emperor of Dune

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

Kevin J. Anderson

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

Children of Dune

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Chapterhouse: Dune

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Dune Messiah

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Dune Messiah

I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.

Dune Road

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity. Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

Munia Khan

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

Joe Biden

Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded.

Elayne Boosler

They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Children of Dune

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Children of Dune

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Chapterhouse: Dune

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

Children of Dune

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Children of Dune

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.

Dune Messiah