Dogs Dean Koontz Quotes

#1. 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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#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 will learn to defeat the enemy.

Orson Scott Card

#6. It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

Sylvia Earle

#7. When I turned 40 I thought, 'I have to really make sure I have time to myself,' because it's very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#8. 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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#9. When she turned around, her bowl of popcorn wrapped in her arms, she smacked straight into Dylan, sending her popcorn flying. "Jesus Christ, can't you wear a bell or something?" she yelled. "How the hell did you get down here so quietly? Oh my God, my popcorn," she whined.

Casey Holman

#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

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#15. Cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.

George Takei

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

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#17. When you are older you will meet a man who will love you for yourself. A good-natured, charming respectable man who is liked by you family.

Amanda Grange

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

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#19. 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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#20. Bitches and hoes don't exist because the hoes know Bo's a feminist.

Bo Burnham

#21. Is your nasty natural?" I heard myself asking. "Or did you get it implanted?

Melissa Jensen

#22. 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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#23. Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

George Soros

#24. It's the technology, see? We can't get away from it. Anywhere you find people, you find it. Clever little contraptions. Cunning strategies. We're toolmakers born and bred; and even if you don't believe in anything else, you'd better believe in that. Because that's human nature.

Daniel H. Wilson

#25. Some stories end in despair, some begin there

Marty Rubin

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

Dean Koontz