Thirds Quotes - Page 19

• I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans, we have been able to cut those deaths by two-thirds.

  Bill Frist

  Children, Cutting, Two

  "Bill Frist on Cindy McCain's Humanitarian Efforts". "America's Election HQ" with Bill Hemmer, www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2008.

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• All the things that we've done as a species have had a limited scope. We're talking about melting the ice caps, raising the level of the seas dramatically, changing the distribution of every other species on Earth, perhaps wiping out one-third or half of them. The changes at work are geologic in scale. The level of change required to deal with it is enormous, too. It will require change in every country. It will require a degree of global cooperation that we haven't seen before.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Talking, Ice

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• We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Reality, Egypt, Land

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• It's the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today. What would he believe? What would he preach? How would he live? With who?

  James Frey

  New York, Believe, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think up until '71 or '72, Herman's Hermits had our second and third Number One records in 1969 and 1970. You know, the first one was in 1964. It was just a question of the American success being so outrageous, that that attracted the most attention.

  Peter Noone

  Thinking, Numbers, Attention

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• And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade!

  Robert Earl Keen

  Third Grade, Grades, Havens

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• A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured it must do. That is why so many men in Wall Street, who are not at all in the sucker class, not even in the third grade, nevertheless lose money. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Wall, Men, Class

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• I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples, Italy. I read the Western economic textbooks and also the more general work of people like Hayek. By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but I was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Spring, Years, People

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  Harlan Coben

  Jobs, Real, Inspiration

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• The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

  Andy Rooney

  Yesterday, Today, Life Is

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Class, Community, Firsts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent. Hispanics cast 6 percent of the vote in 1990 and 12 percent in 2000. If their numbers expand at the current pace, they will be up to 18 percent in 2010 and 24 percent in 2020. With one-third of Hispanics voting Republican, they are the jump ball in American politics. As this vote goes, so goes the future.

  Dick Morris

  Years, Numbers, Voting

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• The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.

  Dick Morris

  Years, People, Watching Tv

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• You see, my friends...you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Two, Iron, Oil

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• During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief to me right there. You betcha!

  David Letterman

  Class, Noses, Debate

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• Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

  Dennis Prager

  Dog, Years, Trying

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• Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.

  John McCain

  Pain, War, Ideas

  "Fog Facts #2" by Larry Beinhart, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2005.

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• Three features mark the Anglo-American system as different from all others. One is the extent to which our law is formed in litigation. Another feature is the way we conduct these cases: we pit antagonists against each other, to cast up from their struggles the material of decisions. A third- and largest in the public consciousness- is the trial by jury.

  Charles Rembar

  Struggle, Law, Decision

  Charles Rembar (2015). “The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Talking, Misunderstood, Littles

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• There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed and those who don't know what they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor: the investment professional, who indeed knows he doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.

  William J. Bernstein

  Two, Kind, Investment

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• The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Times, Years, Two

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.170, eKitap Projesi

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• As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

  George M. Cohan

  Thinking, Play, Ideas

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• Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

  Peter Blair Henry

  Country, Class, People

  Peter Blair Henry, Peter Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.6, Basic Books

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• I really think that the planet is growing a new nervous system. I mean, when you think of Facebook as the third largest nation in the world, that's so unprecedented, so amazing. Think of how many people are texting and twittering. The planet has created a nervous system for massive, rapid connectivity.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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