“When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.” IfsThinkingLooksJobsThreeBitsCareersFourCrazyPositionFinishedQuilts Author:Alfred Molina
“I'm giving a lot of opinions, but I don't give any advice. I'm 31 and I'm not married and having kids. I'm five-foot-three. I weigh, like, 150 pounds and I'm not in this position to be telling people how to live.” PeopleGivingKidsThreeOpinionFiveFeetAdvicePositionMarriedPoundsHaving Kids Author:Mindy Kaling
“Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.” WorldHumansKindTwoMatterMovingOrderThreeGamesWinningDifficultSidesPowerfulNumbersPiecesFourPlayerPositionExpectedChessInevitableCombinationStaringInsanityDimensionsHopelessSimplestInvitationsHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsImprobablePredicaments Book:Time and the Art of Living Source: Time and the Art of Living
“Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenYearsMatterDoneUseHandsMightThreeForceMy OwnWalksForgetMillionsPositionRevolutionKeysYears AgoPreparedSakeSettlingReasonableBe Prepared Author:Ernst Rohm
“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.” SchoolFormLawLife IsCertainThreeEnergyProcessPayCarPositionTaxesBenefitsComputerUselessFacultyTransformedQuantityFringeInaccessibleMetabolismThermodynamics Author:Seth Lloyd
“God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true the third would be false. But at the same time all three are essential parts of most theological positions: the theologian it seems, at once must adhere and cannot consistently adhere to all three.” IfsTwoSeemsWould BeThreeEvilPositionEssentialsThirdsContradictionConsistentlyPropositionsTheologianTheologicalOmnipotent Author:J. L. Mackie
“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.” ThinkingWorldFirstsLooksMadeSeemsLastsThreeNextSportsRaceHalfPositionBearsTenHappeningsHundredGainsEternityDown AndFinalsAthleteNineBlockLook UpSecondsYardsStrideSprinters Book:I Have Changed Source: I Have Changed
“Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.” ImportantCharacterFactsThreeSuccessfulPositionLaysKnivesThree ThingsHostesses Author:Elsa Maxwell
“Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.” WorldYearsStatesCertainThreeChristianityPositionVictoryHundredAppearanceSocialismEmpiresSixty Book:K. Marx and F. Engels on religion Source: K. Marx and F. Engels on religion
“Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.” IfsGivingWould BeThreeForcePositionTrumpDeserveResponseImmigrationRacistThree WordsOutlandish Author:Bill Richardson
“Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.” IfsWayCountryFactsLastsThreeLinesGenerationsPositionStudentsConcernedArgumentOvercomingInstitutionsPatternsEducatedOur CountryEducateCompellingNew WaysDisturbingCrossingsFinish Line Author:Molly Corbett Broad
“I'm really tired of Americans being the only ones asked to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to charity, and, quite frankly, my number one concern right now is taking care of the fact that Americans are taking it in the gut without jobs. Many of them working two and three part time jobs. And, if America wants to do something great, let's get our economy growing again, stabilize the dollar, and we'll be in a much better position to help people around the world.” PeopleIfsWorldWantTwoFactsHelpingCareJobsAmericaThreeNumbersEconomyGrowingPositionRight NowConcernTiredDollarsCharityHeavyAround The WorldGutsLiftingPart TimeHeavy LiftingPart Time Jobs Author:Mike Huckabee
“There are kind of four people up at the top, [Donald] Trump,[Marco] Rubio,[Ted] Cruz,[Ben] Carson, and then there's me and about three governors. I'm perfectly happy with that position right now, honestly, because when I started this race, I was 17 out of 16. The pollsters didn't even ask my name, because so few people knew me.” PeopleKindThreeAsksNamesRaceFourPositionTrumpRight NowHonestlyGovernorsCruzMarcosBen Carson Author:Carly Fiorina
“On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American's entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again - '33, '35. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.” WorldWritingFirstsFactsThreeSupportFourAirPositionGoes OnRelationCourtInternationalCome UpAgain And AgainShockingFilesFbiColumnsInternational RelationsEntryEntrancesEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook