T Quotes
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“Three is a sacred number. Some say it represents the trinity or three layers of the soul.”
Source: The Silver Tattoo
“Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.”
“Three Italians sitting around a kitchen table without food or drink is a sure sign of trouble.”
Source: Goodbye, Rudy Kazoody
“Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.”
“Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.”
“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.”
“Three keys to success: read, read, read.”
“Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.”
“Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.”
Source: Willow
“Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.”
Source: Report to Greco
“Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.”
“Three layers. Chocolate. Lemon. Pink champagne. The bride wanted lemons grown only in Sorrento. The groom claimed that chocolate made anywhere but Bruges was a waste of cacao. They both refused to consider any champagne but that of a bespoke label that produced only two hundred bottles of that variety a year, most of which were presold to a man in Chicago who, like most multimillionaires, didn't share his toys.”
Source: Battle Royal
“Three leaders must do: be seen, be heard, be there. One, let people know you are around. Two, connect the dots between purpose and work and listen, listen, listen. Three, be available to do whatever the organization needs you to do. That's leadership.”
“Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.”
“Three little words with only three syllables and eight letters between them. They could work like magic, but only if used at just the right time and in just the right way.”
Source: Losing our Marbles?
“Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.”
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
“Three may keep counsel, if two be away.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.”
“Three means by which God assures us that we do have eternal life: 1. The promises of His Word, 2. The witness of the Spirit in our hearts, 3. The transforming work of the Spirit in our lives.”
“Three men and they all took something from me: my affection, my promise, and my innocence. What has love given me...? Nothing. Nothing but pain.”
Source: Harvest Moon
“Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger penises than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring, hardly human at all.”
“Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism.”
“Three men sat around a table. All were muscled and similarly greasy and easily identifiable as scum. As he breached the entrance all three were moving, drawing their own guns in surprise.
Only one got off a shot.”
Source: Restless
“Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " Laying some brick." The second man was asked: " What are you working for? " He answered: " Five dollars a day." The third man was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " I am helping to build a great cathedral." Which man are you?”
“Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.”
“Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the
spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”
Source: Advertisements for Myself
“Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!”
“Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.”
“Three million souls can be starved and murdered in the
Congo, and our Argus-eyed media scarcely blink. When a princess
dies in a car accident, however, a quarter of the earth's population
falls prostrate with grief. Perhaps we are unable to feel what we
must feel in order to change our world.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Three million votes for Kurdistan independence created history and cannot be erased”
“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.”
Source: 3001: The Final Odyssey
“Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.”
“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”
“Three mongooses, playing chase, burst out of the undergrowth and came galumphing across the track. The leader stopped and the other two bounced on him. There was a crazy bundle of squealing fur, ears, noses and tails. The mongooses broke apart. All three stood up on hind legs to look at us.”
Source: Himalayan Kidnap
“Three months after Partition, when Acharya Kripalani (president, Indian National Congress) visited Sindh he noted that, ‘There was only a slight exodus of the Hindus and Sikhs from Sindh. It did not suffer from any virulent fanaticism. To whatever faith the Sindhis belonged, they were powerfully influenced by Sufi and Vedantic thoughts”
Source: Unbordered Memories : Sindhi Stories Of Partition
“Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.”
Source: Mercy
“Three months is a lifetime in politics.”
“Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.”
“Three months of moonlit nights and candlelit dinners under the starry Manhattan sky, of high times with friends and galas with acquaintances, of breakfasts at dawn and outings on Sunday afternoons, and evening strolls in Central Park where they rode the carousel and stole kisses in the Belvedere Castle like teenagers too young for love.”
Source: Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
“Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.”
“Three more awards received in 2017
Gold for Seb Cage Begins His Adventures
Gold for The Time Slipsters
Silver for The Deaduction Agency”
“Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.”
“Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account of the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 9/11, 1857.”
“Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf.”
“Three mouthfuls. That's all Fenrys took before he laid his head back on the moss and closed his eyes.
Rowan couldn't move. None of them moved.
Aelin mouthed a short, curt word.
Fenrys did not respond.
She spoke again, that queen's unfaltering.
Live.”
Source: Kingdom of Ash
“Three never-ending days I've spent in this armchair, walking a knife's edge between sanity and madness, studying every rise and fall of her chest just to be sure she's still breathing.
My lungs only fill when hers do, and the time between my heartbeats is filled with sharp, all consuming fear.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Three noble heads cut off in sacrifice for her. But nothing - nothing - can deter the jostling swarms of madmen, pushing forth to jump into the abyss - to waste their lives - for her. And every day the scaffolds heave to hang the new - and newer - martyrs for her cause. Black day that England ever welcomed her.”
Source: Mary Stuart