"The retriever took each bit of meat from……" — Dean Koontz
"The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God."
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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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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
— Jensen Ackles
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is…
— Albert Camus
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I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to…
— Kurt Cobain
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way…
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its…
— C.S. Lewis
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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy.…
— John Ralston Saul
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We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden,…
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into…
— Michael Josephson
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I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically,…
— Pope John Paul II
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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to…
— Richard J. Foster
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We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the…
— Pope John Paul II
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