Quotes about Author
The agnostic ruling class for whom religion was a kind of puppet show to amuse the polpulace and keep it docile, and who believed essentially that all phenomena — even religious phenomena — could be reduced to mechanical explanations.
— Frank Herbert
Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.
— Frank Herbert
Paul hesitated. There'd been no dwarf in the vision, but all else remained identical.
— Frank Herbert
Oh, I don't imply that I've made my father's mistake and peered into the future with a glass of spice.
— Frank Herbert
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
— Ronald Reagan
Tell your sister I'm all right," Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. "Tell her my intentions are good." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," Charles intoned.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I am a mere unicorn. Gaudior dropped his silver lashes modestly.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Questions, questions."Gaudior stomped one silver hoof. "I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: you're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
— Malcolm X
Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
— F Scott Fitzgerald