Third Quotes
1961 quotes by 1550 authors
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Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation…
— Dee Hock
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There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like…
— Israel Zangwill
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Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that…
— Elizabeth I
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If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is…
— Benjamin Carson
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Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do…
— Randy Pausch
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Christina Aguilera finally announced her pregnancy. Thanks for waiting until your third trimester to get the word out—why not just wait until you’re crowning?
— Chelsea Handler
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Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning…
— Andrew Harvey
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Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.
— Ray Mears
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In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street,…
— Gatewood Galbraith
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There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
— Gerald Durrell
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form…
— Joseph Epstein
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In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.
— Sergio Garcia
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My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
— Joseph Rotblat
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If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then…
— Allan Jacobs
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There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
— David Carradine
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One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God…
— David Sills
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It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second-…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the…
— William Shakespeare
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Look, this is a man, he's got great numbers. He talks about numbers. I'm beginning to think not only did he invent the Internet, but…
— George W. Bush
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