Three Quotes - Page 60

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out how they make their money, that's usually for a reason.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

Don't say I want to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. Say, you know what I want to lose weight- say 30 pounds in three to six months for instance. But more importantly I want to knock out 20 pushups a day or I want to run a 3K a day and time myself, and try to beat my time every time every week.

Make lots of money. Enjoy the work. Operate within the law. Choose any two of three

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.

It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.

"The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we’d all loosen up and we wouldn’t need the United Nations.

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

There were three kids in my family. One of each sex.

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.