Преподобная Мать должна сочетать в себе соблазнительность куртизанки с величественной недоступностью девственной богини, поддерживая обе стороны в напряжении, пока она сохраняет силы своей молодости.

Глубоко в сознании людей укоренилась поистине извращенная потребность в разумно устроенной, логичной и упорядоченной Вселенной. Но дело в том, что реальная Вселенная всегда, пусть на один шаг опережает логику.

Начало есть время, когда следует позаботиться о том, чтобы все было отмерено и уравновешено. Это знает каждая сестра Бене Гессерит.

Я не боюсь, я не должен бояться. Ибо страх убивает разум. Страх есть малая смерть, влекущая за собой полное уничтожение. Я встречу свой страх и приму его. Я позволю ему пройти надо мной и сквозь меня. И когда он пройдет через меня, я обращу свой внутренний взор на его путь; и там, где был страх, не останется ничего.

Пытаться понять Муад'Диба без того, чтобы понять его смертельных врагов – Харконненов, – это то же самое, что пытаться понять Истину, не поняв, что такое Ложь. Это – попытка познать Свет, не познав Тьмы. Это – невозможно.

Как подойти нам к изучению отца Муад'Диба? Человеком исключительной теплоты и поразительной холодности был герцог Лето Атрейдес. Но все же многое открывает пути к пониманию его – верная любовь к леди Джессике; надежды, которые возлагал он на своего сына; преданность, с какой служили ему его люди

Людям нужны трудные времена, тяготы и угнетение, чтобы развивались их душевные силы.

Кто может уничтожить некую вещь, тот её и контролирует по-настоящему.

We like to be deceived.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.

I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.

I am just too much.

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

In my book 'The Winter Sea,' set north of Aberdeen, I couldn't just ignore the fact some people there - especially the people in the past - would speak the Doric.

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

To know when you have enough is to be rich beyond measure.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

I love that feeling you get once you leave a cinema having just watched a movie during the day. Your eyes slowly adjust to the natural light, and your mind, being a little slower, takes its time to separate the images of film from the reality you are suddenly facing.

On the pro-vaccine side - and not everyone does this, but I saw it enough for it to make me really uncomfortable - is a tendency to accuse people who are wary of vaccination of being stupid and not understanding science.

Awkward.That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of her, looking at her and feeling things and not knowing what to do.

Set goals that make your heart sing. Then achieving them is an experience of uplifting joy.

The best Chateauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage. Chateauneuf-du-Pape vineyards are farmed organically or biodynamically, and the region's abundant sunshine and frequent wind (called 'le mistral') practically preclude the need for treating the fields with herbicides or pesticides.

I enjoy coming to Scotland, and my favourite memory has to be my first Open at Carnoustie. Coming over from a small town and playing in something so big to golf and y'all.

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

If one day you have to choose between the world and love remember this If you choose the world youll be left without love but if you choose love with it you will conquer the world