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Dean Koontz

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They embrace that concept happily.
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MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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JEAN SASSON The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
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THE PROPHET OF LIFE Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
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DEYTH BANGER There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.
CAREW PAPRITZ Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, ...
CAITLIN THOMAS In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as sus...
UMBERTO ECO That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
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C. JOYBELL C. In this world only the paranoid survive.
DEAN KOONTZ The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Supply-chain management with China as the focus has remade the face of world trade.
DAVID LI Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedent...
CAROLINE GEORGE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view...
ERNST HAAS It's a great honour to have the dean of Coventry Cathedral conducting the service. It will be a very...
JOE ELLIOTT There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In...
HUBERT HUMPHREY The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.
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KELLY JONES I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world: Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it West...
APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv...
NICKOLE SANDERS The soul is a great magician; transforming thoughts into reality, desires into actions, and life int...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interes...
ERNEST MANDEL In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero...
GRAEME SIMSION It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
THEODOR REIK ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.

The first thing you ...
CARLA BUCKLEY Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this wor...
ECKHART TOLLE The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault
BRANDON MULL Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ...
MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
ALAN GARNER Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets...
ROB CONWAY The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave ne...
ARTHUR ERICKSON I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ...
EVA LONGORIA It's like walking into a cathedral.. It reminds me that what I do in the world is a valuable and imp...
MARY GORDON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as ...
ROSE F. KENNEDY I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as ...
ROSE KENNEDY The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping l...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being whe...
JAMES DASHNER love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the Sun, but because it comes seld...
MARK TWAIN Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit...
ERIC RIPERT The boss is very protective of the ballpark. He told me in no uncertain terms to view it as a cathed...
JEFF COGEN As a child, I was fascinated by any branch of physical or biological science. Even today, I find gre...
ROBERT J. SHILLER By squirming out of our dungeon of indifference and wriggling from ourself-centered vault of unaware...
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DEAN KOONTZ Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they go...
DEAN KOONTZ The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.
DEAN KOONTZ Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...
DEAN KOONTZ They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the...
DEAN KOONTZ Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.
DEAN KOONTZ I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

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DEAN KOONTZ Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drin...
DEAN KOONTZ It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear...
DEAN KOONTZ You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
DEAN KOONTZ From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
DEAN KOONTZ That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
DEAN KOONTZ She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...
DEAN KOONTZ For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
DEAN KOONTZ One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
DEAN KOONTZ That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
DEAN KOONTZ Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
DEAN KOONTZ The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
DEAN KOONTZ Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
DEAN KOONTZ it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
DEAN KOONTZ Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
DEAN KOONTZ Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
DEAN KOONTZ There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
DEAN KOONTZ He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
DEAN KOONTZ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
DEAN KOONTZ He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
DEAN KOONTZ The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
DEAN KOONTZ But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
DEAN KOONTZ You amaze me and scare me. I can’t figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, b...
DEAN KOONTZ