Three Times Quotes

• And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Dying, Trying

  Carl Sandburg (1978). “Breathing Tokens”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room.

  Mick Foley

  Wrestling, Champion, Three

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• Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

  D. J. MacHale

  Three, Murder

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “The Never War”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?" "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—" "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—" "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand—

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Feet, Three

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• I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight." That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one. After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Sweet, Writing, Thinking

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed. Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Waiting, Three

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Thin Air”, p.194, Allison & Busby

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• King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Kings, Bored, Baths

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• We don’t want civilians walking around who know about us. Got it? (Tee) Wow, you’re like a ferocious bunny, aren’t you? (Nathan) Worse. A bunny can be fluffy sometimes. Tee always goes for the throat. Trust me. I’m her partner and she’s shot me three times now. (Joe)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Three, Bunnies, Want

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love (2011). “Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love - A B.A.D. Collection: Phantom in the Night, Whispered Lies, Silent Truth and an excerpt from Alterant”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!

  Terry Pratchett

  Smoking, Three, Halls

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• As we meandered, she said my name three times: "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "That was better than TV." "It was." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Does the sun do that everyday?" "Yes." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Everyday is sun day.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Names, Everyday, Doe

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• Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

  Marcel Proust

  Morning, Three, Dear Friend

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• Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Three, Idiot, Failing

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• After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Boys, Two, Giving

  "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

  Martin Amis

  Fear, People, Trying

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Mar 21, 2015

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• She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

  Ann Brashares

  Years, Progress, Three

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.473, Delacorte Press

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• Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill-the same as during drug withdrawal. This is not hunger. Our dietary habits, especially eating animal-protein-rich foods three times a day, are so stressful to the detoxification system in our liver and kidneys that we start to get withdrawal, or detoxification, symptoms the minute we aren't busy processing such food. Real hunger is not that uncomfortable.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Real, Animal, People

  Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Eye, Leader, Insanity

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.57, Macmillan

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• A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Mean

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• Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Giving, Meals

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Tea Leaves, Three, Pieces

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• It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Zest, Three, Feminine

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Stars, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.409, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Three, Knows

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• That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened the next tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss . . .

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Eye, Kissing

  'Porphyria's Lover' (1842) l. 38

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• Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Fire, Ideas

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