Thirds Quotes

Thirds Quote of the day

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

We're a superpower with a third world grid.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

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

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

When we begin to see each other through what the metaphysician calls, the third eye, we begin to know each other on a level that is beyond what our physical eyes can see.

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Death means you are in the third person.

Some people are born on third base.

The biggest hit of my life is Agneepath. My second is Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and the third biggest hit is Dhoom 2

My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.

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

And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade!

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

You have to do well on third downs.

Television is the third parent.

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third...

Kyle Busch has got to be the loneliest NASCAR driver ever. He's led so many laps he never sees anybody in front of him for two-thirds of the race. He just sees clean racetrack...He's the Maytag guy.

Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.