Top 90 Robert Dugoni Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sometimes our questions are better left unanswered.”

— Robert Dugoni

2. “It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.”

— Robert Dugoni

3. “Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies.”

— Robert Dugoni

4. “She’d become desensitized in order to deal with very visual depictions of evil manifested in man’s inhumanity to man.”

— Robert Dugoni

5. “Every minute of every day is a gift, and growing old a privilege, not a right.”

— Robert Dugoni

6. “There comes a day in every man’s life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.”

— Robert Dugoni

7. “Dearest father in heaven, bless this child and bless this day of new beginnings. Smile upon this child and surround this child, Lord, with the soft mantle of your love. Teach this child to follow in your footsteps, and to live life in the ways of love, faith, hope, and charity.”

— Robert Dugoni

8. “Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”

— Robert Dugoni

9. “If today is your worst day, then tomorrow is going to be a little better, right? And the day after that will also be a little better. Each day will get a little better, Alex, but only if you let me help you. So right now, all you have to do is get through today. That’s not too hard, right? Just get through today. You can get through today, right?”

— Robert Dugoni

10. “Long. Not interesting. Coffee?” “No thanks. I’m trying to cut back.” “I thought coffee was a prerequisite for being a cop.” “That’s donuts. What do lawyers eat?” “Each other.”

— Robert Dugoni

11. “There comes a time in every man’s life,” he’d said in the halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, “when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.”

— Robert Dugoni

12. “Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.”

— Robert Dugoni

13. “People say the justice system is color-blind, but it isn’t. It sees color, and it sees green. It will always see green. We like to think our courts are the great equalizer between the powerful and the powerless, but more times than not, money and power still prevail. To the Jack Devines of this world, Bennet wasn’t the victim because in Jack Devine’s way of thinking, everything was OK because he paid for it.”

— Robert Dugoni

14. “None of us is getting out of here alive.”

— Robert Dugoni

15. “Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren’t going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We’d be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we’d become, or live with regret and disappointment.”

— Robert Dugoni

16. “Kimi Kanasket was a black mark on an otherwise joyous occasion, like the drunk uncle who causes a scene at a family wedding. You didn’t acknowledge or talk about the incident. You quietly escorted him from the building so others could focus on the celebration, and when the family got together to remember that day, the blemish was never discussed, until, as the years passed, the incident was forgotten completely.”

— Robert Dugoni

17. “Life is either a collision of random events, like billiard balls during a break careening off and into one another, or if you are so inclined to believe, our predetermined fate – what my mother took such great comfort in calling God’s will.”

— Robert Dugoni

18. “The world played chess, while I played checkers.”

— Robert Dugoni

19. “It takes a lifetime to build a life. It only takes a second to ruin it.”

— Robert Dugoni

20. “We’d be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we’d become, or live with regret and disappointment.”

— Robert Dugoni

21. “We realize it is in those quiet moments that each of us has the ability to make our lives extraordinary.”

— Robert Dugoni

22. “I realized Ernie was my guardian angel and had been since that first day on the playground.”

— Robert Dugoni

23. “Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle.”

— Robert Dugoni

24. “I’ve accepted it, Mom. I’ve accepted who I am. Okay? I’m not a kid who’s going to get picked to play kickball, or to be the lead in the school play. I’m not going to be invited to parties or be chosen class valedictorian. I’m not. And I’m okay with that.” It sounded convincing, though I wasn’t okay with it. It hurt like hell, rejection. And the pain lingered like an open wound that, just as it started healing, was ripped open again.”

— Robert Dugoni

25. “I’d classify myself as a Buddhist. I believed that every living thing came from the earth and was to be respected.”

— Robert Dugoni

26. “You didn’t bury her. That’s why we couldn’t.”

— Robert Dugoni

27. “She looked at her doctors as if they were all nuts. “it’s a pilgrimage,“, she said. “It’s not supposed to be easy.”

— Robert Dugoni

28. “It’s been twenty years, Lieutenant. I’ve gone through it every day for twenty years. I’ll get through these days the same way I got through those, one bad day at a time.”

— Robert Dugoni

29. “My friends’ thirty dollars wouldn’t go far with gas at thirty-six cents a gallon.”

— Robert Dugoni

30. “Hope became something to cling to when there was nothing else but despair.”

— Robert Dugoni

31. “Life is about heart. Yours is as big as any kid’s I’ve ever coached. Don’t you ever forget that.”

— Robert Dugoni

32. “You have good days and bad days when you get to be my age,” Finn said. “And you never can predict which it’s going to be.”

— Robert Dugoni

33. “When it comes to psychopaths, there is no medication. There is no treatment. There is no cure. There are only prisons.”

— Robert Dugoni

34. “The first recollection started as a trickle that, as soon as I attempted to block it, found another path to weep through, the way water will always bleed through concrete, no matter how many times you patch it.”

— Robert Dugoni

35. “If the evidence is suspect, so is the result.”

— Robert Dugoni

36. “Not a problem, friend.”

— Robert Dugoni

37. “And that was when I came to realize that what is important is not what is true, but what people believe is true and what they’re willing to do for that belief.”

— Robert Dugoni

38. “The miracle of Lourdes is acceptance, Sam. I asked God to help you to understand and to accept yourself.”

— Robert Dugoni

39. “Sarah bit at a fingernail. “Could we still see each other every day?” Tracy lifted her arm. Sarah slid closer. “Of course we will. You’re my favorite sister, even if you are a brat.” “I’m your only sister.”

— Robert Dugoni

40. “A smart man learns from his.”

— Robert Dugoni

41. “I’ve heard you’re good, but I don’t think even you can sue a dead man.”

— Robert Dugoni

42. “Nothing’s routine when the doctor has to slip that mask over your face and tell you nighty-night.”

— Robert Dugoni

43. “Too much fast food and too much caffeine, her doctor said. Good advice, but eating well and exercising took time Tracy didn’t have.”

— Robert Dugoni

44. “All I know is, the more I rebuilt, the more I realized that just because things hadn’t worked out as I’d planned didn’t mean things couldn’t work out at all.”

— Robert Dugoni

45. “Everything happens for a reason, Samuel. Never forget that. Have faith in God’s will.” Then she closed her eyes. They would be the last words she ever spoke to me.”

— Robert Dugoni

46. “The past is always the highest peak, and the hardest to scale. But when you finally pull yourself to the top and peer over the edge, there’s nothing before you but the rest of your life.”

— Robert Dugoni

47. “But to my mother – I suspect to all mothers – their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.”

— Robert Dugoni

48. “Fall was slipping quietly into winter.”

— Robert Dugoni

49. “There is nothing for us there.”

— Robert Dugoni

50. “Me and the crickets’ve been here since five, Professor. You know what they say. Early bird catches the worm.”

— Robert Dugoni