W.D. Frank Quotes

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

For me, every day is a new thing.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

The successful writer listens to himself.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

I cry for those not yet dead.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.