Third Time Quotes:

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

- Anne Robinson

topic: Third Time, Thirds

Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

- Osamu Tezuka

topic: Coincidence, Third Time, Thirds

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Firsts, First Time, Third Time

Third time pays for all

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Pay, Third Time, Thirds

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Time, Speaking In Public, Third Time

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Time, Powerful, Third Time, Alchemist Book

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Firsts, Sometimes, Charm, Third Time

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

- Robin Williams

topic: Believe, Kind, Wonderful, Third Time

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

- Alethea Kontis

source: Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Firsts, Flukes, Coincidence, Third Time

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

- Virgil Thomson

topic: Inspirational, Fear, Failure, Overcoming Failure, Third Time

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

- Grace Hopper

topic: Law, People, Coincidence, Third Time

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Fake People, Lying, Sound, Third Time

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

- Ally Carter

topic: Tails, Firsts, Coincidence, Third Time

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Believe, Thinking, Firsts, Third Time, Football Coach

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do

- William Zinsser

source: William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.9, Harper Collins

topic: Writing, Hard Work, People, Hardest Thing, Third Time

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

topic: Lying, Good Luck, Numbers, Third Time, Windsor

If you play poorly one day, forget it. If you play poorly the next time out, review your fundamentals of grip, stance, aim and ball position. Most mistakes are made before the club is swung. If you play poorly for a third time in a row, go see your professional.

- Harvey Penick

source: Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake (2015). “The Wisdom of Harvey Penick”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mistake, Play, One Day, Third Time

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

- Clifford Stoll

topic: Engineering, Want, Firsts, Third Time, Technicians

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

- Vijender Singh

topic: Sports, Athlete, Important, Third Time

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

- Dana Reinhardt

topic: Christmas, Boys, Littles, Third Time, Drumsticks

The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.

- Gram Parsons

source: Song: Ooh Las Vegas, Album: Grievous Angel, 1974

topic: Winning, Thinking, Alcohol, Gin, Third Time

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

- Jon Stewart

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Awards, Host, Charm, Academy Awards, Third Time

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.

- Robert Stone

topic: Writing, Trying, Firsts, Third Time

It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Lying, Mean, Vices, Untruth, Third Time

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

- Malcolm Gladwell

source: "This much I know: Malcolm Gladwell" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2010.

topic: Reading, Years, Spy, Third Time

As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right.

- Pat Buchanan

topic: Christian, Islamic, Europe, Third Time

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, "Get a boat!

- Daniel Quinn

topic: Sight, Sea, Gathering, Third Time, Castaway

God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."

- Caesarius of Arles

topic: Men, Firsts, Saint, Third Time, Deserted

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Lying, Believe, Heart, Lies Truth, Deceiver

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286

topic: Heart, President, Tongue, Third Time

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

- Olusegun Obasanjo

topic: Lessons, Fool, Shame, Third Time, Shame On Me

The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time, I have to look a little deeper. The images get more interesting. The third time it is even more challenging and on each subsequent occasion, the images should get stronger, but it takes more effort to get them.

- Michael Kenna

topic: Photography, Interesting, Effort, Third Time

I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really, the difference between a first-time director and a second- or third-time director - I mean there's no director who makes enough movies anyway - but if they're talented, they have it. And there is no movie that is perfect.

- Rutger Hauer

source: Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.

topic: Mean, Thinking, Differences, Third Time, Enough Movie

Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just forms of trees moving in space. That is the third time I have seen pictures in my dreams, a glint of what I am striving to attain.

- Emily Carr

source: Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.49, D & M Publishers

topic: Dream, Moving, Simple, Third Time

This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma , Inkerman, and Balaclava , may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Race, Years, House, Kettles, Third Time

Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time... and you might get something out of it.

- Felix Gonzalez-Torres

topic: Education, Drunk, Might, Third Time

I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in this big sea of iniquity and negativity.

- Jack LaLanne

topic: Sea, People, Negativity, Third Time

I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Winning, Idols, Guy, Mr Universe, Third Time

Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

- John Ray

topic: Wine, Water, Swim, Third Time, Thrice

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

- Rodney Atkins

topic: Love, Mom, Baby, Third Time, Adoptive Parents

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

- Friedrich Engels

topic: Moving, Civilization, Finals, Third Time

Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She'd let to learn the advantage of punctuality. As she told Sister Mattie the third time she was late to household potions and poisons, nothing interesting happened until after an event commenced.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Running, Interesting, Events, Third Time, Running Late

Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more.

- Arnold Sommerfeld

source: "Physical Chemistry in Depth". Textbook by Johannes Karl Fink, p. 1, 1992.

topic: Thinking, Two, Firsts, Thermodynamics, Third Time

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

- Daniel Johns

topic: Thinking, Doctors, Dying, Third Time

The reality is our season prepared us so well that if we have to play Duke in the second game, we've done that three times this year. We've played North Carolina and Duke back-to-back that this would be the third time. We're just very prepared for this moment.

- Shay Doron

topic: Reality, Years, Games, Third Time

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

- Richelle Mead

topic: Names, Guy, Your Boyfriend, Micah, Third Time

The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Horse, Stars, Eye, Giddy, Cavalry

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

- Jane Smiley

topic: Teaching, Eye, Thinking, Third Time, Thinking Of Others

When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it from her. It felt like it had bricks in it. "Grandmother needs you to carry some things," Paul told me. "Yes," I said through gritted teeth. "I sort of figured that out fifty pounds ago.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.663, Penguin

topic: Grandmother, Teeth, Giants, Third Time