Dozen Quotes - Page 18

• Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Son, Land

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• I took a drink. "I guess it's different for you.""Hmm?" "I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.

  J. Lynn

  Girl, Here I Am, Over You

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• Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

  George R. R. Martin

  Grateful, Men, Mind

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.631, Bantam

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• Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

  T. H. White

  War, Reason, Said

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.200, Penguin

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• He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite the fact that he had recently moved. "You wish to marry me now?" he said, at last.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Eye, Men

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our favor. “Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar,” I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. “That’s a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.

  Ilona Andrews

  Two, Odds, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Sacrifice, Men, Littles

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Part I "The Prison Industry", Chapter 1 "Arrest", p. 17), 1974.

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• Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

  Larry Niven

  Technology, Space, Should Have

  Space.com Interview with S. James Blackman, February 10, 2000.

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• 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.

  Darynda Jones

  Cake, Desire, Razors

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.149, Macmillan

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• In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sight, Ohio, Iron

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.360, Library of America

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• Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Crazy, Men

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

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• This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.

  Steve Perry

  Cheating, Mistake, Mean

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• You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were shamble-men in the woods, would you believe them?" My father shook his head. "What if two people told you?" Another shake. Ben leaned forward on his stump. "What if a dozen people told you, with perfect earnestness, that shamble-men were out in the fields, eating-" "Of course I wouldn't believe them," my father said, irritated. "It's ridiculous." "Of course it is," Ben agreed, raising a finger. "But the real question is this: Would you go into the woods?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Father, Real, Believe

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• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Giving Up, Selfish, Perfect

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• Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Crazy

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• Leo felt trapped. He’d once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he’d been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this — standing in an open clearing with a dozen pretty girls — was much worse.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Evil, Caves

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• Sweet bleedin’ Christ,” Bones interrupted. “Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we’re already turning away spooks by the dozen. If you want another pet, we’ll get you more cats.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sweet, Cat, Pet

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• I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

  Drake

  Humble, Color, Feelings

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• How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

  Louis L'Amour

  Girl, Morning, Children

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.97, Bantam

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• A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

  Mark Twain

  New Year, Holiday, Littles

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• And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

  Thomas Hood

  New Year, Regret, Holiday

  Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2

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

  Robert Keith Leavitt

  People, Soul, Mind

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

  Earl Blaik

  Inspirational, Sports, Guy

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• Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

  Robert Jordan

  Six, Sometimes, Mess

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• Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles.

  Sean Covey

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Gratitude

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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