Dozen Quotes
580 Dozen quotes by 502 unique authors
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Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional…
— Daniel D. Polsby
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One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.
— Johannes Brahms
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One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
— Ben Chifley
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Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.
— Joseph J. Romm
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‎For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life…
— Janet Morris
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Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.
— Paul Tillich
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Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all…
— Frederick H. Evans
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It was six of a half and one dozen of the other.
— Unknown Author
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I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and…
— Edward Condon
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It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but…
— Isabella Beeton
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Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had…
— Carl Sagan
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Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew in…
— Buffalo Bill
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The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people…
— Rupert Murdoch
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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
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I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up:…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the…
— Aleister Crowley
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful…
— Jonathan Swift
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If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys…
— Taylor Swift
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I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty…
— Donald Sutherland
Who Wrote These Dozen Quotes
502 authors contributed a total of 580 Dozen Quotes, led by these top contributors: