Quotation Explorer - 'Three'

Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative. - Anonymous
The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three. - Grantly Dick-Read
There are three types of tears; Tears of joy, Tears of sadness, and Tears of love; a mix of Both. - AX
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military. - Aldous Huxley
Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth. - Gautama Buddha
It took me 25 years for me to realize who I am. Now I'm going to use the next 75 years to focus on how I want to be remembered. One quarter down, three to go! - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. - Mark Twain
In evaluating people, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. If you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. - Warren Buffett
Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks. - Carla Bruni
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. - Mark Twain
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. - Benjamin Disraeli
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
You can be an atheist three seasons out of the year, but not during spring. Spring makes it mandatory to believe in a Divine Creator. - Toni Sorenson
Union with [True] Knowledge is ‘Principle’ [Established Truth] and union with the three [mind, speech and body] is ‘non principle’ [absence of principle]. - Dada Bhagwan
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. - Ambrose Bierce
There are three keys for your journey. Humility, wisdom, love. Don’t leave without them - they will enrich you all the way. And they will bless those around you. - Anusha Atukorala
I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries. - Audrey Tautou
In the life of mathematics two plus two make four; but in the mathematics of life two and two can make five or even three sometimes - Munia Khan
I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. - Quentin Crisp
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
There are three paradoxes of the Christian life: You must give in order to receive, you must let go in order to possess, and you must die in order to live. - B.G. Lavastida Los Pinos Nuevos
To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well. - Roberta C. Bondi
What a day! She had gotten fired, sat in God-knows-what, got rained on, got caught in a traffic jam, been rejected three times, and, as if that weren't enough sponged on by a mooch of an alien knight who claimed he was protecting her from household appliances.Knight of a Trillion stars - Dara Joy
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory. - Augusten Burroughs
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. - Fred Allen
There are three things that stop people from becoming their best, "fear" "anger" and "greed." The antidote to fear is action, the cure for anger is gratitude and the medicine to greed is love. - Sesan Kareem
Three most important questions for a happy life:How can I help? How can I love? How can I belong? - Debasish Mridha
Sin said, "Lust was never satisfied. She was the largest of the three, and had the loudest, most unforgiving cry. When I tried to give her breast milk, Lust wanted more food in addition, so I began to supplement my breast milk. - Stephen and Tiffany Domena
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. - Alice Kahn
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. - Gloria Swanson
GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing. - Ambrose Bierce
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. - Saint Thomas Aquinas
There are only three possible endings —aren't there? to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that. - Jeanette Winterson
Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight. - Shane L. Koyczan
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. - Henry James
I was married, a mom, and a career woman—the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed. - Sharon Nir
To stand strongly, we need three legs: Two legs and a work that will keep us busy! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meditation, education and beauty are the three transforming powers that can change individual and the whole world. - Amit Ray
I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women. - Cecil Taylor
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. - Doug Larson
Two heads are better than one .Three are just awesome . - ابراهيم خليل فقرا
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. - Erma Bombeck
All the three monotheist religions (Jewish, Christianity and Islam)claims that their God (Yahweh, God and Allah) created humans in a similar way: this indicates that creationist have not yet established the creator. - Ajay Kansal
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. - Henry Ward Beecher
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.. - Gabriel García Márquez
I’ve seen the first three Terminator movies in succession more times in my life than I have shaved my legs. - Christy Leigh Stewart
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. - Otto von Bismarck
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw - Charles Bukowski
For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon. - Kurt Vonnegut
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates. - Steven Magee
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold. - Brad Pitt
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man. - Confucius
We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next. - Max More
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. - Mark Twain
The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future. - John Steinbeck
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping? - Jeff Melvoin
I live by three simple words: compassion, love and gratitude. We need to act on these three words daily. Doing so will irrevocably change your world. - Julian Pencilliah
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. - Will Self
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day. - W. Somerset Maugham
Love ~ Truth ~ Freedom are three words that mean the same, and none may exist without the other present. - Alexia Penteleόn de aRcturi
If we had spent our time on our children education rather than praying; we would have had a three times more educated people than the whole world's population. - M.F. Moonzajer
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - Peter Stone
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are. - Alphonse Karr
The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all. - Spike Milligan
There are three ways YOU can GET OUT of abject poverty. The first is inheritance which is always volatile and very scarce. The second is Education which very sustainable. The third and the most EFFECTIVE way is DEATH (or to Die ). But I recommend YOU to Choose Education - Oppong Amankwaa
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin. - Eddie Campbell
Three years later and I’m still writing about you. I don’t know if that says more about you or I. - Dominic Riccitello
As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one. - Henryk Sienkiewicz
I can understand what person are you by asking you three questions "What do you read?", "What type of music do you listen?" and "What you watch!" - So next time be aware of this! - Deyth Banger
life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances! - Siddhartha Choudhary
For life we need three things only: nourishment, love, and peace. - Debasish Mridha
If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water. - Simone Weil
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure - Dorothy Allison
For God’s sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish. - Lydia Davis
Two is not greater than three, even for extremely large values of two. - jeffrey lemkin
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. - Paul Bettany
love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. - Nicholas Sparks
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. - Voltaire
The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000. - Peter J. Tanous
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. - Brian Tracy
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides. - Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas. - Harshit Walia
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. - Martin Luther
When you lay your head on the pillow at the end of the night, can you think of three things you did during the day to make your life better? Did you nourish your body? Your spirit? Your mind? If not, get back up and do something that good for YOU. - Toni Sorenson
What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization. - Mark Pesce
I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. - Ana Monnar
A'isha asked him: 'Does one come to Paradise only by the mercy of Allah?' He repeated three times over: 'No one comes to Paradise except by the mercy of Allah!' 'Not even you. Messenger of Allah?' she asked. 'Not even I, unless Allah enfolds me in His mercy. - Anonymous
Man can be categorized into three levels on social strata: One who are Consciously Unconscious, second who are Unconsciously Conscious - while both are inter-dependent for their survival; the third by and large a rare breed, Consciously Conscious sect who don’t ever relate to this world! - Ramana Pemmaraju
Love has three hands: to touch the mind, to move the heart, and to soothe the soul. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. - Mae West
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. - Oprah Winfrey
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. - Russell Baker
Three things will last forever faith, hope, and love and the greatest of these is love. - Anonymous Holy Bible 1 Corinthians 13 13
At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer. - Lee Jampolsky
Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together. - Scott Hayden
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles
This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death. - René Daumal
You guys over there, pair up into groups of three. - Yogi Berra
I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Matt Groening
My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die. - Tommy Tran
Man…who lives in three places in the past, in the present, and in the future can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth eternity. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. - Ayn Rand
Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like form.That is the true being of the Elders and the Three Immortal Blades.And your body has been cursed with it.Max Jacket- The Three Immortal Blades - Kia Carrington-Russell
It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to be accepted in the mind but travel down your spine and fill your body and you can’t respond immediately to immediate events, there is this incubation period.Source: Martin Amis - http://www.euronews.com/2013/06/25/ma...
Anyone who's ever significantly changed the course of humanity has either been a Crackpot, a Heretic, or a Dissident. In the case of Albert Einstein, he was all three! - Carl Sagan
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. - Aldous Huxley
Three things to give up to be happier: 1. Never complain, condemn, or criticize. 2. Give up anger, fear, and resentment. 3. Give up the desire to impress and control others. - Debasish Mridha
The three of us ate a fine supper of grilled trout with sorrel cream sauce, and red potatoes out of Britney's old garden behind the ruins of the Watling place, and watercress sautéed in butter for hardly a moment with a dash of vinegar, and cream custard with wild blackberries for dessert. - James Howard Kunstler
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there. - Billy Joel
Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third? - Arthur Stanley Eddington
As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread. - Michael Bassey Johnson
If you love three people at the same time, choose the first one, because if there was a 4th or 5th one, you might still fall for them. - Emmanuel Aghado
Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing - R. N. Prasher
Life has only three states-Happiness,Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness. - Deshwal Sachin
Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. - Carter G. Woodson
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. - Charles Baudelaire
Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot. - Leone Levi
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell
People think of all kinds of things at three in the morning. We all do. That's why we each have to figure out our own way of fighting it off. - Haruki Murakami
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place. - Sir Francis Bacon
There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character. - Jon Hunstman
The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris. - Jessica Livingston
Mrs. GreyI have received three compliments on my new haircut. Compliments from my staffare new. It must be the ridiculous smile I’m wearing whenever I think about last night. You are indeed a wonderful, talented, beautiful woman.And all mine. - E.L. James
Love, Faith, Courage, with these three we can win the world - Regina Maria a Romaniei
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. "I think this is it. - Stephen King
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. - Erma Bombeck
Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. - Christopher Morley
We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today. - Shannon L. Alder
In these THREE years, I realized THREE thingstime is some how related to distance.distance changes everything and time teaches everything. people trust THIRD person more than themselves. - Satish Sambhoje
One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything. - Beverly Donofrio
Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived. - Harshit Walia
Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours. - Samael Aun Weor
You've only got three choices in life: Give up, give in, or give it all you've got. - Unknown Author 954
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid. - C. JoyBell C.
There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join. - Meghan Daum
Humility, gratitude, and generosity three things you can never go wrong with. - Kevin J. Donaldson
New ideas pass through three periods: It can't be done. It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. I knew it was a good idea all along ! - Arthur C. Clarke
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. - Arnold Bennett
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. - Lawrence Wright
Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was. - D.J. MacHale
A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and…actually, no it’s just those two things. - Colleen Houck
Three words will allow you to change your thinking and change your life I am responsible. - Toni Sorenson
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. - Cleveland Amory
Plumpick: Don't you understand, the whole town will blow up in three minutes! Columbine: Yes--they will be wonderful, those three minutes.
Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer's money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied. - Chris Murray
The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in a way, I had cut off myself from the inconvenient, maddening, but all-too-necessary messiness of human interaction. - Nick Bilton
It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The Prison Plumb Line to explore all three. - Yvonne J. Medley
Three eggs two slices of toast a cup of coffee an episode of Mr. Ed. A Violin and a bowl of fruit what else does a man need? - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days' labour, civil government is not so necessary. - Adam Smith
To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me,like the river loves the sea. - Debasish Mridha
The processed food industry hijacked our palates by using three highly addictive weapons -- sugar, salt and wheat. - Nancy S. Mure
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. - Jay Leno
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales. - Arthur Kornberg
There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times. - Subroto Bagchi
Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels. - Steve Martin
Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace. - Matshona Dhliwayo
There are three types of tears; Tears of joy, Tears of sorrow, and Tears of love; a mix of Both. - AX
Preparation, application and determination are three of the most important factors that enable you to regain your sparkle and shine like never before. - Donald Pillai
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope. - Hal Lindsey
People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think. - C. JoyBell C.
Old Woman Nora of Loch LomondTo her three wee Grandaughters one cold night. - Karen Hawkins
You born with three obligations: to love, to live, and to be happy. - Debasish Mridha
The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR - Pittacus Lore
I know you love how I make it all go away: all the joy, all the pain, all thoughts in your brain.For the price of your soul, I will hold your heart in my talons. For three summers straight you've been my sweet eye candy;and no one will ever, ever, take you away from me. - Say Anything, Skinny mean man
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. - David Letterman
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. - Woody Allen
There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience. - Eraldo Banovac
[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament, - Karl Marx
The reason that the little things are more important than the big ones, turns out to be very simple: one can fake the big things in one’s behaviour, but not the little things. The little things lack the three f’s: feigning, fabrication, fakeness. Plus the most important c: contrivance. - Nicos Hadjicostis
It took six days from start to finish for the totality of Creation; but within three days He cut His schedule in half to save you. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together. - Aaron Hirsh
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. - W. Somerset Maugham
In any moment of time, you have three paths to choose from. You stand for something, you stand against something, or you drop both, and walk with your inner truth. - Roshan Sharma
Start Now, close your eyes for few minutes and then open them... so far it's going great... Now just think your three favourite things which you enjoy watching, like for example I like True Crimes, True Stories and so far Suspense. - Deyth Banger
So these three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the best one of these is love." I Corinthians 13:13 - Anonymous
ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three. - Ambrose Bierce
The three dots '...' here suppress a lot of detail -- maybe I should have used four dots. - Donald E. Knuth
In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot. - Melville Herman
A recent study of three thousand New England high-school kids shows that students with B averages or better enjoyed seventeen to thirty-three minutes more sleep and went to bed ten to fifty minutes earlier than students with C averages. - Roger Angell
There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three - Elayne Boosler
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. - Christopher Morley
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. - Owen Felltham
I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here. - Matt Groening
Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law. - Lara Biyuts
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham
Every person will become three time child in their life.One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.It's never be gone. - Savan Solanki
PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest. - Nancy Humphries
Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night - Gloria Steinem
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. - Plato
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. - Don DeLillo
the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence! - William Hazlitt
What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one. - Sandra Cisneros
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave. - The Talmud
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. - Dorothy Parker
The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance. - Marcel Proust
How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'? - Jake Jesser
The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art. - Federico García Lorca
I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost
I had two or three faced people, I don't like the feature that they are have a lot of faces, what's bad?You never know which face they are using! - Deyth Banger
My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me,' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went. - Jeff Beck
The stage of Creation is a Timeless Marche. The three measures of Nothing, Possibility, and Chaos will eternally ensure that the script continues on. - Lionel Suggs
When everything seems hopeless, turn your mind toward the three people who mean most to you in this world. Think about what you must mean to them, and from those thoughts of those three people will stem all the hope and meaning you’ll need to fight through. - Shenita Etwaroo
It's three words "Alter your life" which mean change your life. It's not so easy, but it's not so hard everyone can do it. - Deyth Banger
The simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind, than all the (investigations) disquisitions of philosophers and than all the exhortations of moralists. - William Edward Hartpole Lecky
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either choose the truth or I am deceit.
It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building. - John Ruskin
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through. - Stephen King
, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: "You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing. - Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. - Dante Alighieri
When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them. - Monica Fairview
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. - Denis Diderot
In my sixteen years, I have experienced heartbreak, tragedy and transcending love. In my thirteenth year, I moved to Westerly and experienced all three. - Jaycee Relic
The worst thing about the dead rising? (Other than, you know, all the zombies?) The smell. Nothing kills the mood like the odor of three day old road kill and poo... -Katherine Anita Cho(KyCH) - Shawn Durnin
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius
I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum. - Paulo Coelho
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Benjamin Disraeli
Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. - Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Albert Camus
Ares sighed "What are the three words said most often in our house?" "Not tonight, Ares?" Than offered. "Funny," Ares growled. "Cara never says that. - Larissa Ione
Life is three hours journey; childhood, adulthood & old-hood; filled with inspiration, perspiration and desperation. - Santosh Kalwar
There are three realities of life. The reality that you hold, as your individual’s perspective, the actual reality, and the ultimate truth, out of which your perspective and the actual reality take place. - Roshan Sharma
There are three kinds of people in this world. One say I believe in God. Another say, I don’t believe in God, it doesn’t exist. Third one says, I have my life to live; I don’t want to believe in imaginary stuff in life and I am not here to prove your theory on imagination is wrong or right. - Vivek Thangaswamy
There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about. - Neel Burton
Fish and visitors smell in three days. - Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more to mastery than practice and skills. Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits. - George Spafford
Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The History Of The Universe In Three WordsCHAPTER ONEBang!CHAPTER TWOsssssCHAPTER THREEcrunch.THE END - Iain M. Banks
The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother’s weak shoulders which carry three children! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.' - Dan Parker
When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you. - Anonymous
father taught me that the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If it’s not one of those three, it’s best not to say it - Honor Raconteur Deepwoods
I follow three rules: find the opportunity to love and love endlessly, be kind to all and rude to none, and serve others with care and know that service is joy. - Debasish Mridha
Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. - Nikki Giovanni
With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended. - Geoffrey Wood
if i had forever to do whatever i wanted, i would spend three years in reality and spend the rest of my time just thinking and decrypting what i saw and what would have happened to make it like so. - Angel Death
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't. - Lenny Bruce
101 Reasons Why its great to be a woman : We have three times the amount of potential sick leave. Take into account all those days you are unable to work owing to pre, during and post menstrual tension. - Summersdale Publishers
The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE - Deepak Chopra
The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One. - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think. - George Bernard Shaw
CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. - Tom Bodett
Before I was ordained, when I was working for the council, I thought of the first three months of the year as January, February, March. Now I think of them as Epiphany, Candlemas and Ash Wednesday. - Adam Smallbone
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. - Mark Twain
Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts. - Richelle E. Goodrich
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. - Montesquieu
So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passionate desire. - D.H. Lawrence
On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally. - Ana Monnar
They sounded really professional because they had two Vox AC 30 amplifiers. I also had an AC 30, so when you looked at it, three AC 30s, three Fenders - bloody hell, it must be a great band! - Tony Iommi
Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters - Sharad Vivek Sagar
Three simple rules in life: If you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place. - Anonymous
Without space, there could not have been God. Likewise, without chit the other three elements, manas, buddhi and ahankar cannot manifest. - Daaji
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer
A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books. - Ogwo David Emenike
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. - Carl Sagan
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.
It's been through three wives. To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
There are three absolute freedoms that we have that no one can take away; freedom to think, freedom to love and freedom to feel the joys of life. - Debasish Mridha
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. - Ray Bradbury
One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese Proverb
You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it. - Paul "Bear" Bryant
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example. - Albert Schweitzer
Three words for a writer: Make me care. - Buffy Andrews
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two. - E.M. Forster
I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. - Dorothy Parker
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. - Bertrand Russell
My mother buried three husbands ... and two of them were only napping. - Rita Rudner
New ideas pass through three periods: - It can't be done. - It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. - I knew it was a good idea all along! - Arthur C. Clarke
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. - Tom Lehrer
There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.
There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. - Will Rogers
There's three different kinds of Christian," said Cash. "There's preaching Christians, church-playing Christians, and then there's practicing Christian. I'm trying very hard to be a practicing Christian. - Steve Turner
A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother. - Debasish Mridha
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. - Marcus Terentius Varro
I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical. - John Steinbeck
Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice. - John Adams
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. - Willa Cather
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. - Benjamin Disraeli
Music lives in three tenses at once. Developing what comes before it in the past, it engages us in the present, and inspires our hopes for its future. - Warren Benson
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. - Dorothy Parker
You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within. - Dan Howell
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward. - William Shakespeare
The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude. - Neel Burton
The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more. - Stefan Molyneux
Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. - J. Michael Straczynski
Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons. - H. L. Mencken
Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. - Karen Kingsbury
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. - Erma Bombeck
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women. - Orson Welles
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
I would say time is definitely one of my top three favorite dimensions. - Randall Munroe
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave - Paulo Coelho
April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this. - Haruki Murakami
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. - Rita Rudner
It's the height of bad manners to sleep with somebody less than three times. - Mark Boxer
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. - Robert Copeland
There are three types of people. Ones who live according to the past, ones who live leaning onto the future, and ones who live on the moment. - Cesim
Three quarters of faith is boldness.Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence.Three quarters of love is kindness. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Love me like Saturday night, like three glasses of champagne, like the room is spinning, like you're drunk on my love. - C.J. Carlyon
I have a theory about pink pastry boxes. So much joy comes from those boxes. When someone walks into a room with a pink pastry box, joy immediately fills the room. World peace? Three words. Pink pastry box. I get a big cup of coffee and finalize my plans for world domination. - Liza Palmer
Fall down twice... get up three times. - Found on a button on a curtain
There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. - Kurt Vonnegut
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. - Johnny Carson
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. - Timothy Leary
In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three. - Henry Martin
Immature citizens in several sizes were massed before a large factorylike structure where advanced techniques transformed them into true-thinking right-acting members of the three social classes, lower, middle, and upper middle. - Donald Barthelme
Mammals require three essentials in life, identity, stimulation, and security, and by far the most important of these three psychological cornerstones is identity. - David Sheldrick
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. - Benjamin Franklin
One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies. - Shah Asad Rizvi
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. - Alphonse Karr
Three things to help keep your brain cells awake and alert ... drink plenty of clean water, get plenty of deep sleep, and let your imagination soar to places it's never dared venture. - Toni Sorenson
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. - Judith Martin
I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot. - John Green
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. - Nikki Giovanni
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary. - Dave Kellett
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. - Charles Caleb Colton
I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. - Rita Mae Brown
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. - Minna Thomas Antrim
Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say. - E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to? - Dada Bhagwan
Three out of every one hundred people set goals. Even fewer write them down… You can be someone who does have goals—A Goal Getter! - Beverly K. Bachel
I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on. - Ana Monnar
I wear my past around my shoulders as a fine, but worn, cloak. Don't be fooled by my cloak's appearance, I have a three piece underneath. - Hubert Martin
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. - Patton Oswalt
It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
Out of the abundance of the imagination rises the beast called worry and it is soon joined by its partners, anxiety and stress. If you would care to do away with all three at once, simply change your imagination. - G.V. Richards
I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel. - Harlan Ellison
Remember! When you tell a woman that she cooks something very good; you will be fucked by eating it three times a day. - M.F. Moonzajer
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - George Bernard Shaw
For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. - George W. Bush
Heaven is high and earth wide.If you ride three feet above ground than other men,you will know what that means. - Rudolf C. Binding
Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what thejob was, the answers varied. "Breaking rocks," the first replied. "Earning my living," the second said. "Helping tobuild a cathedral," said the third. - P. Schultz
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel. - D. H. Lawrence
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Gustave Flaubert
Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone. - Charles Sumner
There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. - Henry James
Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this need to be said 2) Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now? - Craig Ferguson
Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wingsEre he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover - John Suckling
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil
You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two. - Michael Chabon
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. - Taylor Swift
Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s right. I fucked Jack Black. Okay, we went out only two or three times, but that’s a relationship in my book. And by the way, this is my book. - Kathy Griffin
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. - Annie Dillard
. .his cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend. - Louise Penny
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. - Stephen Hawking
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. - Richard Diran
Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. - Ayn Rand
The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones--I had a childhood. - Carolyn Byers Ruch
You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men - Fernando Pessoa
Three types of people are there, those who smile, those who think and smile and those who smile and think. Beware of those in the last two category, because you don't know their thoughts!!! - G.S.Sreekiran
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. - Denis Diderot
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. - Thomas A. Edison
If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls. - Terry Carr
When that little clock on my wall says Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind. - Olaotan Fawehinmi
Three things will make you happy: always have happy thoughts, be honest to yourself, and express unconditional love for everything. - Debasish Mridha
PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. "Behold great Daubert's picture here on view -- Taken from Life." If that description's true, Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too. Jali Hane - Ambrose Bierce
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. - Titus Maccius Plautus
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
Success is three parts hard work and one part serendipity; this serendipity is a direct result of the other three parts of hard work. - Ken Poirot
In the end, just three things matter:How well we have livedHow well we have lovedHow well we have learned to let go - Jack Kornfield
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. - Barbara Jordan
The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. - P. J. O'Rourke
A vacation is three times more work without the payment. - Debasish Mridha
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want. - Solomon ibn Gabirol
If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast. - Peter James West
There are three laws that govern our universe - laws of physics, laws of nature, and spiritual laws. Like the laws of physics and nature, spiritual laws are just as precise as any mathematics equation. - Truman Massey
The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap. - Robert D. Putnam
Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five years old. Most people lose that spontaneity; I think that always happens. Some are able to win a second spontaneity. - Álvaro Siza
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. - Rick Polito
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible. - Dorothy Draper
The truth is there are always three choices: the right one, the wrong one and the one that is called "No Choice". As you may guessed, the "No Choice" one is a rule of a bad interpreter. - Galina Nelson
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods. - Gautama Buddha
O words of love, O words divine! The silver thought, the golden line! Of all men's words, there's none so fine, As these three words: 'I've got mine!' - Hagar the Horrible
If life was fair ... one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... one third of police and prison officials ... and one third of legislators ... and one third more to make the other three thirds make any sense at all .... Thank goodness for no fair. - Brian Spellman
No man with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul searching disappointment. Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are living springs of water, and three score and ten palms.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. - Robert Frost
A good book should make you laugh, cry or pee your pants. The best do all three! - G. Ernest Smith
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. - Reba McEntire
I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like! - Harold Alvin
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness. - Confucius
I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion. - Debasish Mridha
Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over. - Maggi Richard
i like to have a martini, two at the very most - at three i'm under the table, at four, i'm under the host! - Dorothy Parker
The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all. - Alessandra Torre
The three great acts are love, goodness and self-sacrifice. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There are three states of matter but what state one is in that matters. - Amit Abraham
You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist. - Michael Kroft
I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things can happen, if you're willing to throw common sense in the air and try. - Hilari Bell
Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon - Roger Lowenstein
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity ofconsciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitationto death—and I refuse suicide. - Albert Camus
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it. - Louis Agassiz
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs. - Samuel Butler
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell
So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and things they were yet to do! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
For the Three Percent:You may sometimes feel like you were born in the wrong century, or that the struggle for freedom is already lost, but weren't, and it isn't. Your day is coming. Now is the time to prepare. - Oliver DeMille
As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves! - Jan Karon
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. - John Ruskin
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it? - Shannon L. Alder
Three golden keys that unlock the door to excellence are determination, hard work and practice. - Mark F. LaMoure
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