Max Stephanitz Quotes

#1. The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their highest possible development, the physical and mental foundations already laid and thus his is the more grateful task.

Max Von Stephanitz

#2. The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.

Sam Harris

#3. It doesn't matter. I've moved on from something that was never there to begin with. That's one of the dire things about escaping from childhood. Eventually you grow up and realize the things you wanted when you were young weren't really yours to ask for.
I know that now.

T.J. Klune

#4. I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.

Tony Shalhoub

#5. By all the gods, I desire you, but you must know that you have my love. It's given, sieva. Wholly entrusted to you. Have a care with it.

Kresley Cole

#6. The heart should never be completely locked, or you may regret the opportunities you had to let amazing people into your life

Steven Aitchison

#7. The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness.

Max Von Stephanitz

#8. Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.

Max Von Stephanitz

#9. Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

Max Von Stephanitz

#10. The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know ... Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.

John Adams

#11. The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse.

Max Von Stephanitz

#12. A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

Ernst Haas

#13. The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.

Max Von Stephanitz

#14. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.

Pearl Zhu

#15. The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Mark Twain

#16. If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

Lou Holtz