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“When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.”

Knows Three Sound Differences Money Millions Vote Dollars Million Dollars

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.”

Two Reason Three Sex Behinds Failing Higher Communicate Fourth Bathroom Inability Inability To Communicate

Book:This 'n That

Source: This 'n That

“Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?”

Three Pleasure Guilt Guilty Quarters Guilty Pleasure

Author:Joan Collins

“I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.”

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.”

“Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.”

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.”

Spiritual Poetry Universe Three Energy Language Mystery Curiosity Ingredients

Book:Blue Pastures

Source: Blue Pastures

“There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.”

Men Three Folks Chiefs Beast Three Things Brutes

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.”

Ifs Mind Two Three Study Logic Secure Dry Entertaining Pursued Weariness

Author:Isaac Watts

“The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.”

Should Three Poet Critics Philosopher Observers

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.”

Kind Two Sometimes Three Friendship Lucky Summer Female Luck Lifetime Males Winter Grieving Rejoice Three Times True Friend

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.”

Years States Government Lasts Three United United States Products Goods Three Years Gross State Government United States Government

Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.”

Three Justice Virtue Fortitude Temperance

Author:Epicurus

“There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.”

Two Age Three Memories Loss Forget Humorous Old Age

Author:Red Skelton

“It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?”

Ifs Want Wells Body Government Running Three Courses Our Lives Fishes Alternatives Etc Fishing Ducks Regulation License Intersections

Author:Molly Ivins

“You don't know what it's like! Hyperactive twins! When they turned three, my doctor prescribed Ritalin -- I wouldn't dream of giving a drug to my children, but it does help when I take it myself.”

Knows Giving Children Doe Helping Dream Three Drug Doctors My Children Twins Ritalin

Author:Jane Wagner

“Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.”

Three Discovery Definitions Accidents Silly Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Quests Traveled Serendipity Sagacity Highness

Author:Horace Walpole

“I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.”

“Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones.”

People Three Numbers Phones Phone Numbers

Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.”

Fall Three Months Late Climate Winter Nine Canada Three Months Nine Months

Author:Evan Esar

“After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.”

Men Writing Long Book Able Three Next Accepting Long Time Tradition Males Questioning Time Spent Honorary Learning How To Write

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.”

Feels Three Wish Week Months Six Tired Surface Rome Exhausted Six Months Three Months

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.”

Stills Book Home Past Three Reading Next Half Five One Day Library Clock Next Day Book Reading Furious

Author:Fay Weldon

“Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.”

World Way Life Said Three Fate Imagine Heard One Day Letters Blessed Fortune Blow Shoulders Tales Posts Fairy Tunes Fairy Tale Three Times Good Fortune Crossings Beam Unfamiliar

Author:Fay Weldon

“Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.”

Light Three Rooms Air Comfort Three Things

Book:The House in Good Taste

Source: The House in Good Taste

“You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.”

Book Three Forget Healing Cases Taken Four Minutes Ten Doctors Sick Dollars Medicine Medical Physicians Lectures Dissection

Book:FRESH LEAVES

Source: FRESH LEAVES

“If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.”

Ifs Persons Body Three Found Cities Forever Week Length Pollution Found Dead

Author:Liv Ullmann

“Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.”

Three Given Hurt Healing Response Resurrection Rebirth Hearted Symbolic Crucifixion

Author:Marianne Williamson

“In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.”

Trying Children Running Three Deals Race Teach Miles Treated Heat Short Time

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“The moon is bleached as white as wool, And just dropping under; Every star is gone but three, And they hang far asunder,-- There's a sea-ghost all in gray, A tall shape of wonder!”

Three Stars White Wonder Gone Sea Shapes Moon Ghost Tall Gray Twilight Dropping Wool

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.”

Men Two Three Can Do Four Wonderful Hundred Army Checks Urges Pounds Wonderful Things Whips Fiery Sass

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“After the Reagan years, there were only three people of color in the Republican Party. Their slogan was 'Republicans - the Other White Meat.' George [H.] Bush tried to dispel the 'whites only' image of his party, often referring to his Mexican-American grandkids as 'the little brown ones over there,' and nominated Clarence Uncle Thomas to the Supreme Court.”

People Years Littles Three White Party Color Republican Racism Court Supreme Meat Brown Uncles Supreme Court Republican Party Mexican Slogans Referring Grandkids Mexican American

Author:Kate Clinton

“Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.”

Helping Three Prayer Essentials Thanks Wow

Book:Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

Source: Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

“I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.”

Way Self Wisdom Three Wish Wilderness Self Knowledge Abyss Resent Shortcuts Spas

Author:Anne Lamott

“If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.”

Ifs Writing Wells I Can Done Play Three Hours My Own Five One Day Cost Mood Well Being Lunch Going Out Worth It Days Off Not Worth It

Author:Danielle Steel

“A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.”

Play Action Three Pieces Creating Capable Cat Complexes Sophisticated

Book:The book of Stillmeadow

Source: The book of Stillmeadow

“A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.”

Humans Two Three Cat Good Things Breakfast Recipes Reducing Spaniels

Author:Gladys Taber

“If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Three Wish Give Me Usual Lamps June Three Wishes Aladdin's Lamp

Book:The book of Stillmeadow

Source: The book of Stillmeadow

“Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn it. The Devil tried once and mastered only three words - profanities, I assume.”

World Three Language Devil Adults Assuming Handful Foreigners Profanity Three Words Basques

Author:Jan Morris

“It's not just back-to-back Super Bowls - it's back-to-back Super Bowls in his first three years, it's back-to-back Super Bowls climbing over the backs of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning... If Russell Wilson wins back-to-back Super Bowls, there is no doubt it puts him amongst the top.”

Ifs Years Firsts Three Winning Doubt Nfl No Doubt Climbing Three Years Toms Bowls Super Bowl Wilson Brady Peyton

Author:Michael Irvin

“They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.”

Men May Religion Three Interest Common Rights Superstitions Common Interests

Book:The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

“At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.”

World Stories Body Religion Three This World Periods Empty Disappear Core Fifty Heavenly Forty Easter Tombs Exit Angelic Announcements Ascension Time Periods

Book:Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.”

“Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter.”

Want Two Wisdom Remember Three Courses Individual Answers Liberty Forever Band Six Slave Strikes Chains Evening Tea Posts Quarters I Want You Saturday Wages Saturday Evening Wage Slaves

Author:Groucho Marx

“When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.”

Hands Three Hours Raised Lied Nsa

Author:Edward Snowden

“Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.”

Two Three Numbers Steps Organization Phones Terrorist Pursue Phone Calls Nsa

Author:Barack Obama

“For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.”

“Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.”

Moments Three Food Six Cooking Eight Dinner Alcohol Immortal Culinary Desperation Typewriters Console Gazing

Author:Gyles Brandreth

“In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.”

“Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.”

Thinking World Said Three Minutes Food Ten Eating Cooking Driving Cooks Paris Shops Culinary Good Eating French Love

Book:Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)