Third Quotes
1961 quotes by 1550 authors
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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…
— Daniel Quinn
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Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.
— David Levithan
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People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to stay so down-to-earth…
— Mindy Kaling
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I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five…
— Ilona Andrews
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Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of…
— William L. Shirer
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You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and…
— Ayrton Senna
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In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to…
— Haruki Murakami
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He came third in the state for woodwork,†Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
— Melina Marchetta
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No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes…
— Melina Marchetta
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In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to…
— C.S. Lewis
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For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than…
— Alan Watts
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I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed.…
— Neil Gaiman
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I’m not going,†he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was…
— Garth Nix
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First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
— Alethea Kontis
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She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than…
— Sarah Kane
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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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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…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for…
— Eoin Colfer
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Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to…
— Ally Carter
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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
— Douglas Coupland
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