Three Quotes - Page 34

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.

Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.