Dozen Quotes

580 Dozen quotes by 502 unique authors

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh… — Arthur Bremer
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I… — Jonathan Swift
Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered… — P T Barnum
I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe. — Dick Trickle
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of… — Adam Zagajewski
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs.… — Calvin Coolidge
How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called… — Horace Walpole
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked… — Charles Dickens
You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job. — Zig Ziglar
I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of… — Yvon Chouinard
When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very… — Edmund Hillary
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. — Curt Sachs
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that… — B. H. Roberts
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys… — Joyce Appleby
Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors,… — Dianne Feinstein
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation.… — Swami Vivekananda
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away,… — Dale Carnegie
Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen — Des Lynam
It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of… — Jack Leach
Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not… — Jack Straw
I could list of dozens things my fiancee does that annoys me and I'm sure he could list off hundreds of things about me but… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not… — Henry Latham Doherty
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many… — Jonathan Schell
I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the… — Jack Kerouac

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