Loyal Old Dog Quotes

#1. It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#2. If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Midnight Visitors,' whispered Suzy fearfully. 'With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.

Garth Nix

#4. To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Pierre Salinger

#5. Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

E. Stanley Jones

#6. I thought then, and indeed have thought ever since, what a wonderful person Max is. He is so quiet, so sparing with words of commiseration. He does things. He does just the things you want done and that consoles you more than anything else could.

Agatha Christie

#7. The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. You're like crazy sexy, Ford. And all this weird shit you do, that just adds to it. I'm not sure why, but I like your strangeness. It's real. And it drives me a little wild.

J.A. Huss

#9. People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.

Josephine Humphreys

#10. The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

John Roberts

#11. There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Josette Sheeran

#12. Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

Amy Smart

#13. I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

Boris Kodjoe

#14. I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

Shane Claiborne

#15. A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

Henry Wood