Twelve Quotes

551 Twelve quotes by 468 unique authors

Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are… — E L Doctorow
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend. — B.K.S. Iyengar
For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological… — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
What's twelve inches long and hangs in front on ass, Mankind's tie. — Jerry Lawler
Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve. — Murray Walker
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun. — Noel Coward
Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And… — Michael Crichton
There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there… — George Orwell
The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest… — Lucy Larcom
If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it… — Henry Rollins
A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and… — Robert Benchley
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old. — Ignazio Silone
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's… — Barbara Ehrenreich
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by… — Jorge Luis Borges
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect… — Barbra Streisand
I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine — Philip K. Dick
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. — George Wald
I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I didn't have any friends yet.… — Dylan O'Brien
The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was… — John Henninger Reagan
I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen. — Patrick Rafter
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good… — L. Neil Smith

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