Dozen Quotes

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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

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

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

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, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

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

How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.

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.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

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.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

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.

We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

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

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

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

He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

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

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

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

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

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

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.

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

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

The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.

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

Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.

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.

Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'