Quote by Frank Herbert Download Open image ““Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.”” — Frank Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“They’re not really homes. More like houses where we sleep. Where we eat—if we’re lucky. Where we cry and fight. Where we bleed and… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
“Home was where the heart was, where we bled, where we laughed, met those we love, where we built, and what we fought for.… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
“It was wonderful to be living in a house in a reign of peace, order, tranquility, duty and good conscience, forgiveness and love—but it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Home is not where you have to go but where you want to go; nor is it a place where you are sullenly admitted,… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
“Here there was no shelter for his soul. There were no houses for a home. It was all a wilderness. It was all a… — Philip Dodd Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seemed to him that the house had a bad wild life of its own; the impression of its evil lingered, in its… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of quiet angry that can lie down over a house. Maybe there are some houses, like the Daughertys', that have never… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“This was a better place. Not just this new town, but this new world. So much brighter and cleaner than the old world of… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort. They were… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image