Piter De Vries Quotes

Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he ... I swear he takes a positive delight in it."
-Baron Vladimir ~ Frank Herbert

Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir ~ Frank Herbert

Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat."
-Piter De Vries ~ Frank Herbert

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities. ~ Gijs De Vries

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally. ~ Gijs De Vries

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity. ~ Peter De Vries

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own. ~ Peter De Vries

While I was now fairly demoralized, as well as aflame with the prospect of an hour in his daughter's arms, the thought of using his car to debauch his bourgeois paradise was a perfidy at which I drew the line. ~ Peter De Vries

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is. ~ Peter De Vries

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox. ~ Peter De Vries

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. ~ Peter De Vries

A man has to believe in something, and I believe I'll have another drink. ~ Peter De Vries

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise. ~ Gijs De Vries

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. ~ Peter De Vries

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion ... " "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein. ~ Peter De Vries

He never said I was welcome
Jos de Vries
Petra Hermans ~ Petra Hermans

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more. ~ Gijs De Vries

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters. ~ Gijs De Vries

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best
it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money
provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. ~ Peter De Vries

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. ~ Peter De Vries

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad. ~ Peter De Vries

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. ~ Gijs De Vries

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ~ Peter De Vries

I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim. ~ Peter De Vries

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. ~ Peter De Vries

So we were back in the Children's Pavilion, and there was again the familiar scene: the mothers with their nearly dead, the false face of mercy, the Slaughter of the Innocents. ~ Peter De Vries

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately? ~ Peter De Vries

In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly ... between force and structure, the embodiment of the Principle of Least Action and the (unknown) force, which in mathematics is known as the attractor which pulls ... in the direction of the most optimal and relatively stable self-organized criticality, could very well be the Golden Ratio dynamic. the universal principle which as the balance between finiteness and infinity, stability and flexibility underlies self-similar fractal forms emerging at the 'edge of chaos' indeed seems to be the Golden Ratio Spiral. ~ Marja De Vries

How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would like to dismantle the universe star by star, like a treeful of rotten fruit. Nor do I believe in progress. A vermin-eaten saint scratching his filth for heaven is better off than you damned in clean linen. Progress doubles our tenure in a vale of tears. Man is a mistake, to be corrected only by his abolition, which he gives promise of seeing to himself. Oh, let him pass, and leave the earth to the flowers that carpet the earth wherever he explodes his triumphs. Man is inconsolable, thanks to that eternal "Why?" when there is no Why, that question mark twisted like a fishhook in the human heart. "Let there be light," we cry, and only the dawn breaks. ~ Peter De Vries

Could any of these things be happening because they're fallen women?' I asked, drawing on another of the cliches we were given like a quiverful of arrows with which to face a life cursed by sin.
Doc sat a moment with his hand on the door handle before getting out. 'Well now, it's interesting that you ask. I had a woman recently who feel, not just one flight of stairs, but two. She had a baby as perfect as a pool ball. ~ Peter De Vries

Everyone watched, wondering if this could be the same lunatic who'd nearly berthed his ornithopter in the restaurant.
I swallowed, for it seemed he was headed straight for my table.
He pulled off his helmet and a mass of dark auburn hair spilled out. Off came the goggles, and I was looking at the beaming face of Kate de Vries. ~ Kenneth Oppel

Time heals nothing-which should make us better able to minister. ~ Peter De Vries

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing." ~ Peter De Vries

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. ~ Peter De Vries

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ... ~ Peter De Vries

Count your blessings - not your troubles. ~ Hendrik De Vries

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. ~ Peter De Vries

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. ~ Gijs De Vries

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice? ~ Peter De Vries

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. ~ Peter De Vries

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. ~ Peter De Vries

Restructuring is a favorite tactic of antisocials who have reached a senior position in an organization. The chaos that results is an ideal smokescreen for dysfunctional leadership. Failure at the top goes unnoticed, while the process of restructuring creates the illusion of a strong, creative hand on the helm. ~ Manfred F.R. Kets De Vries

We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers. ~ Gijs De Vries

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~ Peter De Vries

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. ~ Peter De Vries