Three Words Quotes

• Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Tattoo, Three

  "The Wedding". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2003.

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

  John F. MacArthur

  Would Be, Three, God With Us

  John F. MacArthur (2006). “Truth for Today: A Daily Touch of God's Grace”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• "Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
  Absently he replied, "I was, once."
  "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
  "I live."
  "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more - with one word you will make me weep."

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Sea, Two, Three

  "Lord Foul's Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One". Book by Stephen Donaldson, 2013.

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• If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Book, Stuff, Three

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• Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Teacher, School, Thinking

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• Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence. So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed.

  Rajneesh

  Fighting, Silence, Relaxation

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• Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Safety, Challenges

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

  Rumi

  Three, Life Is, Results

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• I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs]

  George R. R. Martin

  Morning, Coffee, Struggle

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• Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

  John Fowles

  Cancer, Love You, Fairy Stories

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

  Frank Muir

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Frank Muir, Denis Norden (1984). “The utterly ultimate 'My word!' collection”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• There's so many great, fantastic compliments I need to give that girl. Three words isn't enough.

  Sam Claflin

  Girl, Giving, Three

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• When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

  Jodi Picoult

  Simple, Expectations, Comfort

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• [The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.

  Douglas Adams

  Philosophy, College, Men

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• My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.

  Timothy Leary

  Three, Language, My Favorite

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• As you watch the Gary Condit interview, three words come to mind: stiff, unbending and impenetrable. And that's just his hair.

  David Letterman

  Hair, Mind, Watches

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• The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

  Carol Tavris

  Life, Three, Sweetest

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• In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  People, Liberty, Essentials

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• God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Three, Enough

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

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