Quotes 121 till 140 of 163.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.
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The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
Rick Moody (2007) 32 -
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Notes on the Next War (1935) -
This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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