Arrakis Map Quotes & Sayings

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. — Thomas A. Edison

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent. — George Verwer

We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains. They are very ordinary professional men, and all they know is their own trade, just like all other professional men. There are some geniuses among them, just as there are mental giants in any other field of endeavor. — Anthony Standen

It must be a very dour and pessimistic astronomer indeed who seriously doubts that there must be countless numbers of intelligent civilizations scattered throughout the universe on other planets which are orbiting around other stars. An attitude which asserts that man is the only intelligent life form in the universe is intolerably arrogant today ... anyone who holds such an opinion today is, fortunately for those who like to see some progress in human conceptions, something of an intellectual freak equivalent to a believer in the Flat Earth Theory. — Robert K. G. Temple

Whoever says that nothing is impossible has never tried slamming a revolving door! — Anonymous

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others. — Elijah Wood

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. — Jane D. Hull

Smile for me, Patti, as I am smiling for you. — Patti Smith

Zachary leaned in, and I thought he was going to kiss me.
Instead he pressed his cheek to mine and held it there. It felt more intimate than a kiss. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted into coins of equal weight in order to make trade easier and smoother. But it was when coinage first made its appearance in Athens that it truly flourished. — Michael Maloney

Does she belong to you, Finnikin?" Yata asked, her eyes piercing. "No," he said after a moment. "But she belongs to my heart. I feel her absence strongly and it brings me ... sorrow. — Melina Marchetta

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil. — William Gibson

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory? — Eli Of Kittim

Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated — Jocelyn Murray