| Here are some interesting quotes I've incountered in the many books that I've read. |
| The hands of a king are in the hands of his healer. Let the true king be known. |
| The Return of the King by J. J. R. Tolkien |
| Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson |
| Live your life as though you've already died. |
| Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson |
| Destruction is Creation. |
| Power does not corrupt people, fools corrupt power. |
| Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson |
| [ Love is ] Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. |
| Science is a poor forcaster of human behaviour. |
| Dune by Frank Herbert |
| Fear is the mind killer. |
| What do you despise? By this are you truly known. |
| I am I because I am here. |
| Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical univers that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. |
| The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. |
| How often is it that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. |
| Prophets have a way of dying by violence. |
| Julius Caesar by William Shakespear |
| Veni, vedi, vici. ( I came, I saw, I conquered ). |
| I am constant as the northern star. ( Ironicly he died 21 lines later ) |
| The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. |
| Dune: House Atreides by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson |
| Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. |
| There are weapons you cannot hold in your hands. You can hold them in your mind. |
| It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire. |
| The enemy of my enemy is my friend. |
| [ Perhaps he is mad ] but just mad enough to be holy. |
| Like many culinary delicacies, revenge is a dish best savored slowly, after a long and delicate preperation. |
| Without a goal life is nothing. Sometimes the goal becomes a man's entier life, an all-consuming passion. But once that goal is achieved, what then? Oh, poor man, what then? |
| The ultimate question: Why does life exist? The answer: For life's sake. |
| The surest way to keep a secret is to make people belive they already know the answer. |
| Truth is a chameleon. |
| Great men great losses should endure. |
| The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov |
| Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. |
| The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again.. |
| The Martiens by Kim Stanley Robinson |
| If you don't act on it, it was never a feeling to begin with. |
| A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle |
| The more a man knows, the less he talks. |
| 1984 by George Orwell |
| Perhaps a lunatic is simply a minority of one. But a minority of one is not always a lunatic. |