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Dozen Quotes

1.
The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.
Philip Neri

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2.
I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.
Christopher Columbus

3.
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
Russell Baker

4.
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.
Don Herold

5.
In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
Bobby Jindal

6.
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.
Joshua Foer

7.
Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.
Frank Gaffney

8.
I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.
Ingrid Newkirk

9.
Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.
Paul Ekman

10.
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.
I. F. Stone

11.
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
Julian Casablancas

12.
At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.
Jerzy Kukuczka

13.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.
Frank Herbert

14.
A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.
Giorgio Morandi

15.
One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
Ben Chifley

16.
I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup,
which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers.
The idea? To decorate the studio,
now there's hope of Gauguin living here.
I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.
Vincent Van Gogh

17.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev

18.
The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the edge of the Mojave Desert, an area that used to be farm country. There were all these fresh-produce stands with avocados and date palms. You could get a dozen artichokes for a buck or something. Totally wiped out now.
Sam Shepard

19.
At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.
Arthur Compton

20.
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
Cecil B. DeMille

21.
I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.
Bob Uecker

22.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre

23.
Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
P. J. O'Rourke

24.
In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.
Edward Bernays

25.
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

26.
I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.
Bob Uecker

27.
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.
Paul Tillich

28.
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.
Paulo Coelho

29.
One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves.
Daniel Tosh

30.
I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
Zachary Levi

31.
Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.
Charlie Finley

32.
Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
T. H. White

33.
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
Mark Twain

34.
One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.
James Gunn

35.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
Elizabeth I

36.
A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.
Tom Robinson

37.
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.
Jim Harrison

38.
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
Henry Ward Beecher

39.
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
Michael Ignatieff

40.
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Louis L'Amour

41.
There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.
Ivan Sutherland

42.
Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.
Clint Walker

43.
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.
Robert Sternberg

44.
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
John James Audubon

45.
Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.
Oren Arnold

46.
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
Brad Pitt

47.
there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.
Madeleine L'Engle

48.
There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!
Jim Rohn

49.
It was six of a half and one dozen of the other.
Danny Higginbotham

50.
Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.
Shane Warne