Thirds Quotes · Page 6

Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.

— Terry Goodkind

Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.

— Matt Fitzgerald

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

— Indira Gandhi

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third,

— Jack Ma

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

— Anonymous

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

— Gore Vidal

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

— Pete Rose

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

— Michael Moore

What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.

— J. Michael Straczynski

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows…

— D. H. Lawrence

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. Its the first time an entire Third World country will have to…

— Chelsea Handler

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

— Anonymous

There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous…

— Noam Chomsky

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only…

— David Brin

People may like what third-party candidates say, because often they are the only ones saying anything, but they usually won't vote for…

— Michael Parenti

Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe…

— Newt Gingrich

The perception is that -- and I know many of us have heard this anecdotally -- many third and fourth generations of…

— Tom Reilly

It was difficult after losing the first two sets and in the third set I was a break down, but something happened…

— Nikolay Davydenko

I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to…

— Nolan Ryan

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to…

— Rich Franklin

I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed…

— John Jay Hooker

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who…

— E. B. White

If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And…

— Maya Angelou

People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to…

— Mindy Kaling

Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It…

— Ramakrishna

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

— Anonymous

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

— Noureddine Morceli

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

— Leo Rosten

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

— Sebastian Arcelus

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

— Joe Bob Briggs

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind...

— J. Michael Straczynski

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

— Anne Robinson