Colonel_Worf Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 What is your favorite chapter-starting quote? One that has always stuck with me is one from House Harkonnen."To know what one ought to do is not enough"-Prince Rhombur Vernius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Ahh, there are so many! When I have time, I will have to pick a favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Not necessarily a start of chapter quote (as I have many as I did a paper on Dune).The only quote I know by heart and for some reason have remembered is:"If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets," he murmured.This was Gurney Halleck at the beginning of Dune.When I first joined this forum I had it in my signiture for quite a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard3000 Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 So did I, Andrew! I think that was the frst signature I had here.You stole it! I cut you for that! ;)One of my favourites is from Dune, and highlights a Bnee Gesserit proverb:"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."Of course, there are hundreds of good quotes from the novels. I'd also like to add one quote that preceeded the first chapter of Man of Two Worlds:"Up is only up when there is a down."-Dreen proverb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exatreide Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 I Forget it...but its a tiaxu proverb...Oh if only I could it...Something about how they built pillars for maudib...a tall and narrow one or something.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard3000 Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Here lies a toppled god.His fall was not a small one.We did but build his pedestal,A narrow and a tall one.-Tleilaxu EpigramI believe that's how it goes. That's one of my favourites, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caid Ivik Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 "Arrakis teaches philosophy of a knife; you cut off what isn't yet finished and say: 'Now it is finished, for it ends here'." - Muad'Dib Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander_Ordos Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 My favorite quotes are in GEOD , but the one that made most sence to me was the one I have in my signature."When humans created a computer with the ability to collect information and learn from it, they signed the death warrant of mankind." - Legends of Dune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Harkonnen Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 "God made Arrakis to train the faithful"-Muad'Dib Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usul Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 I shall not fear. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I must face my fear, I must permit it to pass through me and over me, and when it is gone there will be nothing only I will remain. - The Litany Against Fear Or the only other one I can really remember: May thy knife chip and shatter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Ohhhh, difficult. Very very difficult. *Sigh* I really can't pick just one but I can only write one down..."Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might life them out of resentment-filled illusions of security."--Alma Mavis Taraza I'm also rather fond of that Tleilaxu epigram, and the littany against fear. Difficult difficult... EDIT: "Truth suffers from too much analysis."--Ancient Fremen Saying.Couldn't leave that one out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMA_1 Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 good one dust.Read my sig, "All rebels are closet Aristocrats".Leto the second said it, my favorite duniverse character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caid Ivik Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 I like also the beginning of Chapterhouse:"Those who would repeat the past must control teaching of history." - Bene Gesserit Codex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driftingcloud Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 It's not a quote from the beginning of a chapter, but I think it is the best insult I've ever read in a book:"Do as she says, you worm-faced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd! Do it or I'll help her dismember you!"From Dune, in the chapter when Paul and Jessica are captured by Stilgar and his band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHJ BV Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Ohhhh, difficult. Very very difficult. *Sigh* I really can't pick just one but I can only write one down..."Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might life them out of resentment-filled illusions of security."--Alma Mavis Taraza I'm also rather fond of that Tleilaxu epigram, and the littany against fear. Difficult difficult... EDIT: "Truth suffers from too much analysis."--Ancient Fremen Saying.Couldn't leave that one out. Now my eyes hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 *Sigh* There's always someone who isn't happy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tio_Holtzmann Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 What is your favorite chapter-starting quote? One that has always stuck with me is one from House Harkonnen."To know what one ought to do is not enough"-Prince Rhombur Verniussadly kinda ripped off from the bible. but hey.i like the BG commissioning statement, the "i stand now in the sacred human presence. as i do now, so may you someday" one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archduke_of_Ecaz Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 "The capacity to learn is a gift;The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice."Can't remember which book, but this one really stuck out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timenn Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 "Destroying him would be a service to mankind."- Thufir HawatThe quote may look stupid at first sight, but you should now the context. Thufir Hawat thinks this while having a conversation with the Baron Harkonnen. It annoys him that the Baron talks so much, and he compares him with his Dukes, who could tell something with only the lift of an eyebrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caid Ivik Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 "Religion supresses curiosity." - Stolen Journals (GEoD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard3000 Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 I'm rereading Dune now, and I came across an interesting quote by Thufir. It is in Castle Caladan, and Thufir has just chided Paul for having his back to the door. He looks across to the sparring floor, where he sees a beat up old training mannequin, which reminds him of his own age and mortality.There stand I, he thinks to himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 My favourite is:"the".Sure it's int he middle of a sentence (nearlya llt he sentences coem to think of it. Hmm, was Frank tryign to tell us something here?) and it seems to be just a word, but think about it. Really think about it.Thought about it?Think you understand it?Really gets to me, ya know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard3000 Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 :'( Wow. My whole world has changed. That's deep, Mahdi. That's deep... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 The Tleilaxu one and the 'If wishes were fishes...' one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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