"She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and……" — Dean Koontz
"She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well."
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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz has 374 quotes on this site.
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I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's…
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a…
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our…
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise…
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity,…
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes,…
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still…
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Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the…
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
— Thomas Reid
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Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So…
— Elie Wiesel
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is…
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to…
— Patrick Warburton
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We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those…
— Walter Lippmann
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is…
— Jean Toomer
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five…
— Yukio Mishima
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed…
— James Payn
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