Three Quotes - Page 2

It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.

I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

There are three masks: the one we think we are, the one we really are, and the one we have in common

Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

Last time I had three or four of those I crapped for three days straight!

When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne...Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption.

Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote - and I!

Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.