quotes about Thirds
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The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.
-- Alan Shearer -
I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.
-- Anne Robinson -
Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
-- Antonio Machado -
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I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.
-- Ayrton Senna -
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
-- Beverly Cleary -
We're a superpower with a Third World grid.
-- Bill RichardsonSource : "Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2003.
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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
-- Bob Uecker -
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Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
-- Buchi Emecheta -
You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
-- Charles F. HaanelSource : Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.119, Lulu Press, Inc
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If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.
-- Chris WoodingSource : "The Iron Jackal". Book by Chris Wooding, 2011.
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It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
-- Colm Toibin -
We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.
-- Eamon Dunphy -
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
-- Edwin Powell Hubble -
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A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.
-- Gale SayersSource : Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
-- Gary Ackerman -
Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.
-- George Brett -
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The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
-- George Carlin -
How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened.
-- Gerald MorrisSource : Gerald Morris (2008). “The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
The biggest hit of my life is Agneepath. My second is Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and the third biggest hit is Dhoom 2
-- Hrithik Roshan -
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Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third,
-- Jack Ma -
Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.
-- James Lee -
The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.
-- Jamie Farr -
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A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
-- John Lothrop MotleySource : John Lothrop Motley (1856). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes”, p.30
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If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one. And if you own two homes, buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy one.
-- John Paulson -
Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.
-- John Shelton ReedSource : John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed (2016). “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue”, p.12, UNC Press Books
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There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.
-- Jose Mourinho -
If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?
-- Joseph Heller -
Most of My Friends are two-thirds water
-- Kelly LinkSource : Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.239, ReadHowYouWant.com
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There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!
-- Louis St. Laurent -
For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,
-- Luise RainerSource : "Winning an Oscar: Blessing or Curse?" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. March 3, 2006.
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Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.
-- Manju Kapur -
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If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
-- Michael Chang -
History is the third parent.
-- Nadeem AslamSource : Nadeem Aslam (2013). “The Blind Man's Garden”, p.7, Faber & Faber
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Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third.
-- Nazr Mohammed -
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It must be God first, God second, and God third
-- Oswald Chambers -
Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.
-- P. J. PlaugerSource : Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill
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Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.
-- Paul Weyrich -
Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.
-- Paul Weyrich -
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The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035.
-- Peter Voser -
Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.
-- Ridley Scott -
The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.
-- Rocky Bridges -
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When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.
-- Samuel West -
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.
-- Tom Glavine -
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
-- Tommy Lasorda -
I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.
-- Walter Schloss -
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
-- William Blackstone -
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.
-- William Shakespeare -
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I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.
-- Woody Allen -
I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell.
-- Zell Miller -
We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to.
-- Catherine CamusSource : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
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When I get to first base, I start thinking about third.
-- Jose Reyes -
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Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.
-- Morgan Ensberg -
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.
-- Oliver D. Crisp -
Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
I really like triples. You hardly ever see me stop at second. My goal is third and that's where I'm headed.
-- Bobby Abreu -
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If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.
-- Brandon Jacobs -
And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade!
-- Robert Earl Keen -
Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.
-- James TobackSource : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2009.
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I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.
-- Jenkin Lloyd JonesSource : Jenkin Lloyd Jones (2016). “An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS
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