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'There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whisper...
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FRANK MCCOURT It's the dogs that get the bad wrap. Once you get a dog you have to socialize them and get them arou...
DOLORIS GIANNINI I love Jeff Bridges. You can never go wrong with that guy. I hope to work with him one day.
CHAD LINDBERG You can never, never, ever go wrong eating more fruit.
NANCY S. MURE Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights sh...
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JIM BUTCHER I like dogs
Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy do...
MARGARET WISE BROWN My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want ...
W. BRUCE CAMERON Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs;...
LYNN COADY My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly u...
DAVID WROBLEWSKI If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
WOODY ALLEN If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
EMILY DICKINSON If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher.
TURKISH PROVERB No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.
CESAR MILLAN You never run out of things that can go wrong.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE People love their dogs like they love their children. You want your dogs to have fun like your kids.
SHARON ANDERSON I think you should only take your dog if it can get along with other dogs.
BETH PATTERSON Who loves me will love my dog
PROVERB You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.
CHRISTIAN DIOR Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong tim...
ANI DIFRANCO Dog owners who have dogs with a respiratory infection should keep their dogs at home. As far as the ...
CYNDA CRAWFORD My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky do...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I love pizza; you can't really go wrong with pizza.
NICK JONAS You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but th...
POLLY HORVATH But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" T...
EDDIE IZZARD But with dogs, we do have “bad dog.” Bad dog exists. “Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad d...
EDDIE IZZARD I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and alw...
JANE WIEDLIN It depends what people are looking for. If people need a protection dog, I can do that, or I can tra...
JULIE FURBACHER People teach their dogs to sit, it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never l...
MITCH HEDBERG But with dogs, we do have “bad dog.” Bad dog exists. “Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!...
EDDIE IZZARD Dogs' lives are short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose...
DEAN KOONTZ Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love ...
SIGMUND FREUD The story of Jim Braddock continues to be so incredibly stirring because it is a tale that reminds u...
RON HOWARD So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can&...
DRAYMOND GREEN I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow...
GEORGE FOREMAN A lot of people get these dogs because they want - pardon my expression - a bad-ass dog.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets: With...
HENRY FIELDING I can say I trained these dogs, and I know that the dog will not make a mistake.
ABDUL WAHID That dog can go places you can't.
MARC HABERMANN Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer
LEO ROSTEN If a dog fights with other dogs, if a dog does anything aggressive, he has to stay in the kennel.
BARBARA MARINO No dog is too small or too large. Some dogs are so big, we put two tables together. Tables go down t...
CONNIE BAILEY No two dogs are alike. And yet, all dogs have something in common that makes them dogs, and makes th...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Empty knight, Harry! Morgan? Morgan? What's wrong with your head?" Thomas shrugged.

"I do...
JIM BUTCHER When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, ...
JOSE ANDRES You can trust your dog to guard your house but never trust your dog to guard your sandwich.
ANONYMOUS My whole family competes, and every dog, regardless of age, sex or breed, is important. And the dogs...
MARNEY BOATWRIGHT The little dogs are allowed on the big-dog side, but the big dogs aren't allowed on the little-dog s...
HOLLY SWOAPE I'm not a dog-owner, to my dogs, I'm their mother.
JENNIFER WAGNER . . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
JOHN GROGAN People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has...
MITCH HEDBERG Some people think a dog is a dog, and some people think this dog is a part of my family. Some people...
JACKIE JORDAN Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing...
ANGIE THOMAS If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.
GRAHAM DAY Somehow, he knows which dogs are nice. One dog tried to bite him, and Chester gave the dog a bloody ...
BRETT SHARMAN If I can just keep searching for things that move my heart and soul as much as this story, you can't...
HILARY SWANK There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course....
DICK VAN DYKE There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. Yo...
JENNIFER EGAN I don't treat my dog like that. I buried my dog. You can do everything for other countries but you c...
DANIEL EDWARDS A lot of people get around with canes and dogs, ... I've always been a dog lover, and to pick betwee...
CLAIRE GILBERT I guess it was mainly my love of dogs. I had a dog at the time I started and I wanted to spend more ...
JACKIE JORDAN You can't have too much dog in a book.
GAIL HONEYMAN There are bad dogs of every breed. You can make any dog mean. My opinion is that pit bulls make good...
AL DAMS Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never ...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never g...
DOROTHY PARKER You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREEN As a trainer it is quite an accomplishment for your dogs to perform in such a large, prestigious ven...
DAWN GOEHRING You can say any foolish thing to do to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, y...
DAVE BERRY You get lots of people, especially where I live, who go in to a butcher and insist on organic beef -...
TOM PARKER BOWLES Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN You can love any dog out here. You know what I'm saying.
CURTIS BOLDEN There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off ...
GARO ALEXANIAN Our problem is that we usually love people who don't love us enough, hurt people who love us a lot, ...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI I wish I could show people the joy of the relationship of a well-behaved dog. Early training and ear...
BRIAN KILCOMMONS Dogs might love a place, as people do, but the only place they love beyond all others is the place w...
DEAN KOONTZ Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a c...
LEWIS GRIZZARD EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY
JIM BUTCHER You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, yo...
DAVE BARRY Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, an...
JIM KJELGAARD Instead of calling it the John I'm going to start calling my bathroom the Jim. That way I can say I ...
ANONYMOUS There is an urgent need for farmers in Nigeria to be subsidized. You can never go wrong giving subsi...
SOTONYE ANGA Dogs’ lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’r...
DEAN KOONTZ Dogs’ lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’r...
DEAN KOONTZ A Blue Dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing...
MIKE THOMPSON What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?
REBECCA SERLE God created Dog, for when men forget love, a dog can show them how
ROYALTON AMBROSE “ Influential leaders do change policies but never change principles. You can add value to you by ...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.
BARBARA DANA To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the l...
COURTNEY MILAN Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is thing that can n...
DOROTHY PARKER A dog's love is only second to that of a mother's.
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JIM BUTCHER But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just becau...
JIM BUTCHER I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence
JIM BUTCHER She pressed the rest of her clothes into my hands and said, "Don't do anything weird with them."
JIM BUTCHER You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
JIM BUTCHER There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
JIM BUTCHER All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we ar...
JIM BUTCHER Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?"

The ...
JIM BUTCHER The world always thinks that the destruction of a physical vessel is victory,” he said quietly. �...
JIM BUTCHER beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.
JIM BUTCHER You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
JIM BUTCHER Never touch my brother on his fucking birthday.
JIM BUTCHER Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies."

"Y...
JIM BUTCHER Pansy," Murphy sneered.

Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk li...
JIM BUTCHER You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know...
JIM BUTCHER Let's get something clear up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-go...
JIM BUTCHER Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked.

I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she ca...
JIM BUTCHER I realized then what had happened.

She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into g...
JIM BUTCHER Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.

Gggrrrr r...
JIM BUTCHER A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning....
JIM BUTCHER Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evapor...
JIM BUTCHER A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. "Get more away...
JIM BUTCHER Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with styl...
JIM BUTCHER I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd sett...
JIM BUTCHER Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
JIM BUTCHER Stop," Kincaid said in a calm voice. "Unclench."
"Unclench what?" Murphy demanded.
"Unclen...
JIM BUTCHER Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey m...
JIM BUTCHER And it's deadly to us. We can inspire lust, but it's just a shadow. An illusion. Love is a dangerous...
JIM BUTCHER Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.
JIM BUTCHER