106 Quotes by Brian Herbert

It's said that the Fremen scum drink the blood of their dead.Not the blood, sir. But all of a man's water ultimately, belongs to his people - to his tribe./The human body is composed of some seventy percent water by weight./A dead man, surely, no longer REQUIRES that water.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues.

My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like to believe it's worthwhile. And yet, I can't help but recall something ... said to me once when I was young: "All of these things with which we occupy ourselves don't amount to much in the cosmic scale of things, do they? No matter how extensively we ponder any particular topic, there is really very little there"--Gilbertus Albans, Reflections in the Mirror of the Mind