Dune Muaddib Quotes & Sayings

He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor.
Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit. — Joe Abercrombie

As the paramedics lifted her, my grandmother's corpulent arms swung like bat wings with the life squeezed out of them. — Andrew Davidson

She only had a few coins to her name, but she had the Midas touch when it came to turning destitution into dreams. — Michael Schmicker

You screamed." Will said. "Is that all you did?"
"I screamed a great deal." Tatiana sounded injured. — Cassandra Clare

Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy. — Pete Wentz

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. — Miguel De Cervantes

Her heart now pounding, a strange feeling of combined fear and happiness invaded her. She took a deep breath. Her lungs filled with fresh air. An invigorating rush of electricity all over her body overcame her.
"So, is this how falling in love feels?" she thought.
She knew the answer. — Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. — Arnold Bennett

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things. — Jose Maria Aznar

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences. — Woodrow Wilson

The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world — Kim Heechul

Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of God? We must begin the habit here and become used to being with God. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

But there was something about Diesel ... it started with his name and ended with his butt. — Erin McCarthy