Thirds Quotes · Page 13

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

— Saint Augustine

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

— Italo Svevo

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

— Jimmy Carter

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

— Tariq Ali

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

— Brandon Jacobs

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

— Margaret Haddix

I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.

— Walter Schloss

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

— Christa Wolf

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will…

— Gary Ackerman

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of…

— Peter Thomas Bauer

I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how…

— Stephan Jenkins

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

— Dan Jenkins

I remember, with the third [Twilight] movie, when we went to Munich and the entire Olympic stadium was filled with fans. We…

— Robert Pattinson

Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control…

— Al Gore

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

— Ethan Embry

Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two…

— Jill Stein

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after…

— Henry David Thoreau

The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will…

— Neal A. Maxwell

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity--to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the…

— Deepak Chopra

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is…

— Gautama Buddha

Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She'd let to learn the advantage of…

— Gail Carriger

I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my…

— Woody Allen

In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few…

— Laurence Sterne

In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the…

— Julie Burchill

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's…

— Roger Moore

The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that…

— Thomas Jefferson

When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the…

— Paul Reiser

Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls…

— Khalil Gibran

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known…

— H. L. Mencken

Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and…

— J. C. Ryle

...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What…

— Bill Vaughan

Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch…

— Kelley Armstrong

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

— Sonny Landham

First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

— Alan Shearer

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

— Anonymous

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me,…

— Ralph Nader

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second,…

— Emilio Estevez

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an…

— Anonymous

Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

— John Green

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

— Rudolf Hilferding