#dogs

You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you. ↗

— Maryam Faresh

#cats #daisy #deafblind #dogs #inspirational-quotes

Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dogs #humanity #men #men

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, of the innocent eyes of good men, of the elastic nature of the passions, even of the devotion he had received from some men, and one woman, and dogs. ↗

— Patrick White

#devotion #dogs #fear #gods #innocence

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#because #conditioned #dogs #end #ever

There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#dogs #inspirational #self-protection #suffering #understanding

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#beatles #dogs #veganism #vegetarianism #inspirational

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it's the size of the fight in the dog. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#inspirational

Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned. ↗

— Brad Watson

#mississippi #short-story #men

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs. ↗

— Karel Capek

#amaze #dogs #found #garden #goes

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#children #courted #dogs #else #everybody