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  • In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

    Dog   Thinking   Doubt  
    Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

    Dog   War   Wags  
  • A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

    Love   Friendship   Dog  
  • If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

    Cute   Death   Loyalty  
  • Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

    Dog   Prayer   Heart  
    Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.80, Bantam
  • Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.

    Dog   Atheist   Moving  
  • We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

    Dog   Art   Horse  
    'The Conundrum of the Workshops' (1892)
  • America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

    1949 Letter, 26 Oct.
  • Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

    Life   Dog   Sorry  
  • Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

    Dog   Literature   World  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社
  • The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  • Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

    Jealousy   Dog   Evil  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.

    "The Boko Haram-Benghazi Lin" by Michael Hirsh, www.politico.com. May 12, 2014.
  • Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

    Friendship   Dog   Money  
  • A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

    Dog   Animal   Pet Loss  
  • The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

    Funny Love   Dog   Men  
  • What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How many pancake brains could do what Heche did with David Mamet's dialogue in Wag the Dog? No doubt Heche has been stuck with a few bad gigs, but Paglia, of all people, must be well aware that being an actress is not the same safe ride as being the tenured university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

    Dog   Art   Writing  
  • A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

    "How I, a Cat Person, Ended Up With a Puppy Sleeping in My Lap" by Luise Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2014.
  • Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The trouble is that, with all popular movements, the lunatic fringe so quickly ceases to be a fringe; the tail begins to wag the dog. For every woman or man who is quietly and sensibly using the idea to examine our assumptions, there are twenty rabble-rousers whose real motive is desire for power over others. The fact that they see themselves as antiracists or feminists or whatever does not make them any less rabble-rousers.

    Dog   Attitude   Real  
    "Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind By Communism" by Doris Lessing in "Our Country, Our Culture: The Politics of Political Correctness" edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Philips, 1994.
  • No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

  • I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

    Dog   Pet Loss   Puppy  
  • Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

    Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
  • Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

    Life   Dog   Pet  
  • In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

    Dog   Joy   Tails  
  • Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

    Dog   Lying   Deception  
  • Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.

    Dog   Two   Rehearsal  
    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.
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