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“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'”

World Should Firsts Country Today Winning Bits Animal Race Five Four Feet Lucky Equal Thirds Horse Shoes Ran Ducks Fifth Horseshoes

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.”

Night Thirds Meetings

Author:James Lee

“My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.”

Bigs Break Thirds Grades Monkeys Third Grade

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked - not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.”

Ifs Would Be Felt President Term Party Democracy Thirds Seeking Welcome Impulse Rulers Precedent Continental Mugabe Zuma

Author:Mark Gevisser

“With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.”

People Way Feels Stills House Existence Thirds Caught Albums Beach Complaints Great Times Beach House

Author:Victoria Legrand

“There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.”

World Different Today Left Records Anxiety Thirds Competition Rounds Score Target Realised World Records

Author:Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

“I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.”

Two Mother Three Actors Parent Brother Doctors Thirds Chosen Older Brother Chosen One

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.”

People Feels I Can Enough Helping Stories Inspiration Film Rich Seeing Groups Share Land Gratitude Waste Devil Thirds Live Life Awe Courageous Playgrounds Waste Land

Author:Lucy Walker

“In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.”

Ifs Firsts Doe States Facts Action Values Three Opportunity Work United United States Hard Work Thirds Embrace Obligation Pursue Mold Free Society

Author:Roberto Goizueta

“I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.”

I Can Thirds Election Commerce

Author:Rick Perry

“Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.”

Decision Careers Inspire Members Thirds Misery Satisfaction Inspire Others

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging, speaking up and doing something to make a difference. We can each make a difference...because each of us is already part of the community where racism exists & thrives.”

Firsts Persons Sometimes Community Challenges Differences Racism Thirds Rounds Making A Difference Thrive Fourth Questioning Speaking Up Anti Racism

Author:Paul Kivel

“The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.”

Love Hatred Thirds Destroyed Temples

Author:Abraham Isaac Kook

“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.”

“The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.”

Firsts Earth Fire Tree Blood Angel Thirds Green Forests Grass Burned Trumpets Hail Green Grass

Author:John the Apostle

“The third stage is no thought.”

Stage Thirds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.”

Ends Meditation Stage Higher Thirds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.”

War Age Mankind Thirds Dawn Gathering Babylon

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very low levels at the top, where we stripped away regulations. So the result of that was not a more dynamic economy, but a more unequal society. We tried the experiment of trickle-down. A third of a century later, we can say fairly definitively that it was a failure.”

Decision Levels Results Economy Century Particular Taxes Lows Thirds Rate Experiments Inequality Regulation Low Level Trickle Down

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.”

Kids School My Family Thirds Grades Cousin My Cousin Momma Third Grade My Momma

Author:Ester Dean

“In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.”

Firsts Mean Three Language Study Speech Thirds Various Arrangements Persuasion Hypnosis Power Of Persuasion

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.”

People Want Jobs Mother Saws Fashion Thirds Welfare Grades Controlled Illiterate Third Grade

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?”

Should Humans Women Century Female Thirds Lays Forty Eggs Crocodiles

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?”

Mean Hands Time Watches Thirds Down And Slow Down Second Hand

Author:George Carlin

“There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.”

Firsts Seems Eye Three Objects Color Perspective Ought Aspect Thirds Distance Size Finished Diminish

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame, Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor. It is most just to throw that on the ground, Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.”

Ifs Drink Thirds Shame Rounds Glasses Lists Thee Temperance

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.”

Looks Eye Lasts Past Dies Speak Hours Glory Thirds Balls Paid Various British Screens Reputation Indian Queens Charming

Book:The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

“When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.”

Firsts Stills Action Thirds Oratory

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.”

Firsts Might Used Three Secret Gone Sea Land One Day Thirds Repentance Trusted Three Things Cato

Book:Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

Source: Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

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

Two Thirds Universal Scandal Applause

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.”

Firsts Sun Thirds Painter Sequence Copying

Book:The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.”

Ifs Ends Language Natural Results Speech Thirds India Patterns Sentences Phrases Characteristics Reaching Appropriate Urban Juggling

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.”

Men Hope Imagination Hero Thirds One Man Lunatic

Author:James Fitzjames Stephen

“I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.”

Ifs Writing Years Long Enough Seems Four Thirds Finished Opera

Author:Virgil Thomson

“Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just forms of trees moving in space. That is the third time I have seen pictures in my dreams, a glint of what I am striving to attain.”

Done Dream Lasts Faces Moving Form Night Simple Space Tree Movement Thirds Strive Forgotten Forests Last Night Face To Face Moving In Third Time

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Assuming that two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to remove the president, what is the alternative? I think we need to explore that in debate... Some have suggested censure. I think it is certainly a possibility that the Senate will decide on some alternative to removing the president from office.”

Thinking Needs Two President Possibility Office Vote Thirds Assuming Debate Alternatives Remove Senate Censure

Author:Thad Cochran

“I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.”

Way Persons Doe Fans Like You Thirds Serving Living My Life I Live My Life Third Person Someone You Like

Author:Lady Gaga

“When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.”

People Thinking Enough Painting Thirds Dialogue Abstract Canvas Abstract Painting

Author:Philip Guston

“You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.”

Way Want Wells May Dream Thirds Your Dreams

Author:Nicole Kidman

“We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and participate in the construction of new pipelines in order to supply our energy resources through Turkey to third countries, including in southern Europe”

Country Use Order Energy Ready Resources Europe Thirds Including Gas Southern Construction Participation Distribution Turkeys Storage Pipeline Privatization

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.”

Movement Honor Offers Highest Thirds Golden Presentation Badges

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“I think that's why I play tennis, because of the challenge, because of the competition, .. That's why we love to play tiebreaker in the third set. It makes it more exciting, and the bigger support in the stand, and more fans involved in it. I really enjoyed the competition and took a lot of hard work to make myself No. 1 at 18 years old.”

Thinking Years Hard Play Challenges Support Fans Hard Work Involved Thirds Bigger Exciting Competition Enjoyed Tennis

Author:Maria Sharapova

“It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be late abortions - either occurring spontaneously or being induced deliberately in the second or third trimester of pregnancy - in order to prevent the birth of abnormal children.”

Thinking Way Should Children Would Be Order Birth Late Thirds Abortion Appropriate Pregnancy Abnormal Screening Embryos

Author:Ian Wilmut

“These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.”

“There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.”

Years Age Middle Thirds Holiday Leisure Festivals Idleness Middle Ages

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.”

People Should Life Is Sleep Balance Periods Activity Labor Thirds Enjoyed Divided Idleness Recreation Rebuilding Life Balance Time Periods

Author:Brigham Young

“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”

Ifs Knows Needs Death Heaven Hell Events Huge Thirds Encouragement Remains Immortality Pet Hopeless Parting

Author:Emily Dickinson

“If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government — is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary.”

“I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.”

Firsts Made Two Together Force Conflict Limits Intellectual Thirds Critical Fourth Formal Contradictory Right Words

Author:Dylan Thomas

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