Dogs By Dean Koontz Quotes

#1. If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

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#2. Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

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#3. After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper.

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#4. Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.

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#5. You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

#6. it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a fashion. In

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#7. And because it was so wonderful, I slipped back down into that dream of dogs and children and beautiful people who met my eyes and knew me in full, knew me and did not reject me.

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#8. Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

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#9. People have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

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#10. This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

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#11. Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

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#12. Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?

Randy Barnett

#13. Tex Rickard started his career staging boxing matches for Nome's miners, then moved on to New York and built Madison Square Garden, becoming one

Gay Salisbury

#14. Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

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#15. On the other hand, dogs eat with gusto, play with exuberance, work happily when given the opportunity, surrender themselves to the wonder and the mystery of their world, and love extravagantly.

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#16. Dust Glitter Rain

Jenny Downham

#17. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Samuel P. Huntington

#18. Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.

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#19. My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#20. Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.

Hanya Yanagihara

#21. No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.

Byron Nelson

#22. In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

Nicole Kidman

#23. Dogs might love a place, as people do, but the only place they love beyond all others is the place where you are.

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#24. Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

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