Thirds Quotes

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

I have always done what I thought was best for my country, never varying unless I was advised that two-thirds of the Democrats were for a bill and then I voted for it.

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

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

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

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.

There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.

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

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

There's a reason the Third World came in third.

Most of My Friends are two-thirds water

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.

History is the third parent.

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

The third always speaks the unspeakable words.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.

Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.