Frank Herbert Quotes

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986

Topics

GovernmentWiseThinkYouCreate

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

Joe Gold

GoldGymFirstMadeBodybuilding

I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.

Jesse Ventura

MeWorldBackDownPersonSay

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

John Fletcher

TodayTomorrowYouDrinkSorrow

I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

Megan Fox

PowerSomeoneMy OwnNeedOwnElse

Your whole life is changed with that first child. Your social behaviors are all turned upside down, you're sleep deprived, but eight months in, my son had this seizure, and it just woke me up to the idea that, oh, no, this can end. And it can end in a way that will destroy you forever.

Jeff Nichols

LifeSonSleepChildMeUpside Down

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

Steven Pinker

SingleGenomeEntiretyGene

I have no problem with any question.

Roger Waters

ProblemQuestionNo ProblemAny

The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.

Colm Toibin

ManPeopleMeFeelEarlyGay

When you're a kid, and someone is your best friend, you almost don't need words. It's almost like puppies in a - frolicking in a garden or something. You don't articulate stuff. You just live it.

Claire Messud

FriendLiveBestWordsBest Friend

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

Brian May

GuitarSoundPrettyGadgetsFar

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak

TruthPowerManBeastAboveRaised

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

Alison Bechdel

MenDrawingBoredOutStartedGet

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