Quotes that I like

FROM DUNE

  • “Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause an effect. Both deny the infinite.” - The Apocrypha of Arrakis
  • “Blindness can take many forms other than the inability to see. Fanatics are often blinded in their thoughts. Leaders are often blinded in their hearts.” - The Orange Catholic Bible
  • “I must not fear. Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Muad’Dib
  • “Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.” - Pardot Kynes
  • “Knowing where the trap is–that’s the first step in evading it.” - Duke Leto Atreides
  • “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.” - Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
  • “Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.” - Alma Mavis Taraza
  • “There’s no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.” - Darwi Odrade
  • Here lies a toppled god His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and tall one.* Tleilaxu Epigram
  • Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes. Real boats rock. o Darwi Odrade

From WikiQuote

  • 1500 years ago, everybody “knew” that the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody “knew” that the earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you “knew” that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll “know” tomorrow. ~ Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), Men in Black
  • As a general rule, there are exceptions to every rule. Of course, this implies at least one rule exists to which there are no exceptions, but this is nearly impossible to prove and must be ignored in practice. - John M. Anglin
  • Act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brandt
  • Ah-ah, I know what you’re thinking punk. You’re thinking did he fire six shots or only 5. And to tell you the truth I’ve forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum the most powerful hand gun in the world and will blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself a question, Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk! (Scorpio laughs, gets blown away, and splashes into the lake) (Clint Eastwood)
  • An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
  • Aut viam inveniam aut faciam (I will either find a way or make one) ~ Hannibal
  • Because, in the short term, we cannot conjure up solutions out of thin air, our minds are preoccupied with accessible things to cut or fasten. ~ Richard L Kempe
  • Courage is not an absence of fear; it is action in the face of fear. ~ Anonymous
  • Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Don’t take life seriously because you can’t come out of it alive. ~ Warren Miller

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  • But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumble-dore knew and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents, that there was all the difference in the world. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
  • “Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.
  • The early bird catches the worm a stitch in time saves ninehe who hesitates is lostwe can’t pretend we’ve never been told we’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seeze the day.still, sometimes, we have to see for ourselves We have to make our own mistakes we have to learn our own lessons we have to sweep today’s posibility under tommorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves, what benjamin franklin meant that knowing is better than wondering that waking is better than sleeping and that even the biggest failure even the worst, most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying
    Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy

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  • “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss
  • “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” Neil Gaiman
  • “Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” Tom Krause
  • “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus
  • As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. ~Seneca