Konrad Lorenz Dog Quotes & Sayings

They throw their stones at you not expecting that you would catch them with a smile. But a wise soul knows that what life throws at you today, is only preparing you for a stronger tomorrow. After all, you can't build a castle without first laying down its foundations... — Seja Majeed

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. — Konrad Lorenz

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated — Haile Selassie

Commander Huron, I should like to inquire after one of your flight officers."

"Would that be Ensign Kennakris, ma'am?"

"Do you always answer the question like that?"

"Well, ma'am, she does have a way of getting people's attention."

"I've been told she scares the living shit out of people."

"That's one of the ways she gets their attention. — Owen R. O'Neill

She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholic
drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs. — Lorrie Moore

It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow. — Konrad Lorenz

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. — Konrad Lorenz

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this Earth can ever be. — Konrad Lorenz

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz

A pinch from a friend hurts more than a blow from an enemy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money. — George Harrison

Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger. — Konrad Lorenz

To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact. — David Blunkett

Promised little waves and nice breezes, and she could practice her Spanish, which she had done well in during high school. Everyone - literally everyone - from her graduating class was — Emma Straub

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog — Konrad Lorenz

The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always. And who among us, offered the chance, would not relive the day or hour in which we first knew love, or ecstasy, or made a choice that forever altered our future, negating a life we might have had? Such chances are rarely granted. Memory and grief prove Faulkner right enough, but Einstein knew the finality of action. If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago. And — Greg Iles

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime. — J.G. Ballard

My driving force is spirituality. — Debra Wilson