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Dozens Quotes

When one just isn't enough to say it.

Some things pile up without anyone planning it that way, like a writer's habit of starting a fresh notebook instead of keeping one steady journal, ending up with a small collection of half-used pages. Others use the word for scale in public life, like decades of legislative work that added up to more laws than anyone expected.

Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be...

Quotes by Zach Wamp

I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

Quotes by Yossi Sarid

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

Quotes by William Nicholson

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes....

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

Business Quotes

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

Quotes by Tran Duc Luong

A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plotting and carrying out dozens of elaborate jihadi missions from Afghanistan to Algeria.

Quotes by Terry Glavin

Tech is important, but if you look at even the successful tech start-ups, you see they employ only dozens of people at most. Tech is never going to have the impact on the job market that manufacturing has.

Quotes by Stef Wertheimer

In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read in my memoir are the stories and thoughts I've never shared openly.

Quotes by Shahid Afridi

No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That's all changed.

Quotes by Russell Means

Experience Quotes

The murder of Robert Krentz - whose family had been ranching in Arizona since 1907 - by illegal alien drug dealers was the final straw for many Arizonans. But there are dozens and dozens of other citizens of our state...

Quotes by Russell Pearce

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

Quotes by Roger Mahony

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

Quotes by Robin Yount

We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years.

Quotes by Robert P. McCulloch

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.

Quotes by Rob Sheffield

Great Quotes

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

Quotes by Richard Neal

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

Quotes by Richard Ben-Veniste

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these...

Quotes by Reza Aslan

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

Quotes by Rachel Maddow

Like Quotes

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I...

Quotes by Peter Straub

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Dozens quotes page cover?
It covers the idea of things adding up in large, sometimes unplanned numbers, from stacks of half-finished notebooks to decades of legislative work.
Why would a writer joke about having dozens of notebooks?
It's a relatable creative habit: starting fresh rather than committing to one journal, which naturally leaves behind a scattered collection over time.
Does this collection touch on anything more serious?
Yes, one line gently acknowledges the real risks young people can face once they're away from close supervision, without going into specifics.
Is there a quote about literature or writers specifically?
Yes, one entry simply notes how many notable American writers have chosen family as a subject worth returning to again and again.
Where can I find more quotes about accomplishment at scale?
See our Great quotes for more on achievement and lasting contribution.

This collection also gently touches on the risks young people can face once they're away from close supervision, a reminder that not every kind of abundance is good news. For lighter takes on plenty, see our Great quotes.