Top 100 Quotes About Thirds
#1. I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates.
Nick Hornby
#2. Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
Bernie Sanders
#3. If nearly two-thirds of Americans will accept a scientific fact only if it's not in clear conflict with their faith, then their worldview
Jerry A. Coyne
#4. Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised.
Steven Erikson
#5. To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
John Ruskin
#6. When I get to first base, I start thinking about third.
Jose Reyes
#7. I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two-thirds of African countries have had multi-party democratic elections. Not all of them have been perfect, or will be, but the trend is very clear.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#8. I want to relearn the intervals, to
journey with a man among the thirds and fifths,
augumented, diminshed, with a light touch,
sforzando, rallentando, agitato, the usual
adores and dotes - and of course what I reaaly
want is some low notes.
Sharon Olds
#9. I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.
Manju Kapur
#10. From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.
Mike McGavick
#11. Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.
H.L. Mencken
#12. Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce
#13. I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.
Rick Perry
#14. Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#15. About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
Arne Duncan
#16. Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
Isabel Allende
#17. When I first started campaigning, I was really excited. Two-thirds of the way through, I thought, 'Why am I doing this?' Then I got really excited when I realized I was going to win.
Kyrsten Sinema
#18. A new study says that over half of all Californians are
obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds
of Californians.
Jay Leno
#20. The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together
Paul Keating
#21. Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
Aldous Huxley
#22. The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035.
Peter Voser
#25. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
Herman Melville
#26. You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
F. W. De Klerk
#27. Most of My Friends are two-thirds water
Kelly Link
#28. Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.
Olesya Rulin
#29. The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author.
Donald Maass
#30. Kyle Busch has got to be the loneliest NASCAR driver ever. He's led so many laps he never sees anybody in front of him for two-thirds of the race. He just sees clean racetrack ... He's the Maytag guy.
Kyle
#32. In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.
Tina Brown
#33. Fifty yards away. The muzzle velocity of a M16 is 3,100 feet per second. Three feet in a yard, which means he has two-thirds of a second left on Earth.
Rick Yancey
#34. I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.
Tom Robbins
#35. Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third.
Nazr Mohammed
#37. Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
Dean Rusk
#38. Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.
Bauvard
#39. The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.
Rocky Bridges
#40. Men: don't wear the untucked shirttail. It cuts you in half, which is a very bad proportion. Think of yourself as a series of thirds. So when the shirt is tucked in, you're 1/3 on top, 2/3 on the bottom.
Tim Gunn
#41. Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.
Peter Diamandis
#42. I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.
Robert Kennedy
#43. You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.
Robert Breault
#44. In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
#45. Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Peter Benenson
#46. Morocco, one of the more fully developed countries in Africa, with a solid infrastructure and a population of about 27 million, holds roughly two thirds of the world's reserves of phosphate rock - phosphate deposits are to Morocco as oil is to Venezuela - and dominates the world market in this vital
Jim Rogers
#47. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.
Herman Melville
#48. Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second.
Jonathan Haidt
#49. The third always speaks the unspeakable words.
Tupac Shakur
#50. Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it's about finding him; he comes in in the third act.
Ridley Scott
#51. A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.
Robert Breault
#52. One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
Dean Rusk
#53. For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.
Nick Offerman
#56. Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
Joseph Epstein
#57. Meanwhile, the chemical industry has mounted an aggressive campaign to discredit organic food. And without the knowledge or consent of most Americans, two-thirds of the products on our supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients.
John Robbins
#58. One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Will Rogers
#59. 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
#60. There's a reason the Third World came in third.
Jim Goad
#61. Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
Dalton McGuinty
#62. My credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
Mary Augusta Ward
#63. To Seek Glory in Battle is Glorious emerged high above the planet's southern continent, almost two thirds of the way to the pole.
Craig Alanson
#64. The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire
#65. But a woman's right to leave a marriage can also be a lifesaver for men. The Centers on Disease Control reports that the rate at which husbands were killed by their wives fell by approximately two-thirds between 1981 and 1998, in part because women could more easily leave their partners.32
Stephanie Coontz
#66. As of this afternoon, you are a Defense Agent for the THIRDS." The man grew quiet and Dex couldn't help but wait for him to throw his arms out and shout "Ta-da!" with a show of jazz hands.
Charlie Cochet
#67. Between a half and two-thirds of all Europeans who migrated to North America between 1650 and 1780 did so under contracts of indentured servitude;
Niall Ferguson
#68. Mental practice alone produced about two thirds of the benefits of actual physical practice
Chip Heath
#69. I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.
Woody Allen
#70. I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.
Jackie French
#71. For tonight, let's leave the crazy outside. Just you and me in here."
Sloane liked the sound of that. "Just you and me.
Charlie Cochet
#72. [A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions ... the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013
Janet Yellen
#73. A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.
Charles Baudelaire
#74. If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subservient to one-third, for which admittedly he has no absolutely feverish zest, how can he hope to live fully and completely? He cannot.
Arnold Bennett
#75. Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing ... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter
#76. Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.
William Tapley Bennett Jr.
#77. Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
Elbert Hubbard
#78. How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
Paul Simon
#80. Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
Nathan Deal
#81. Forty years ago two-thirds of children walked or biked to school; today 10 percent do. A generation ago 70 percent of children played outside; today the rate is down to 30 percent.209
Steven Pinker
#82. Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.
Haruki Murakami
#83. Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
Mignon McLaughlin
#84. Writing is like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
Philip Roth
#85. I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.
Joseph Wheelan
#87. Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.
Voltaire
#88. The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#89. Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.
J.C. Ryle
#90. We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
Barry McCaffrey
#91. When we begin to see each other through what the metaphysician calls, the third eye, we begin to know each other on a level that is beyond what our physical eyes can see.
Marianne Williamson
#92. I really like triples. You hardly ever see me stop at second. My goal is third and that's where I'm headed.
Bobby Abreu
#93. First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.
Alan Shearer
#94. There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.
Jose Mourinho
#95. It could kill you, Maura said.
Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.
Maggie Stiefvater
#96. But the Alim laughed at this. 'And we know who they are. Allah have pity on the Anglicans! Samad, when the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intellect go away,' said the Alim, shaking his head. 'And one third of his religion.
Zadie Smith
#97. The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface: the skin.
Haruki Murakami
#98. A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
Roger L'Estrange
#99. The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Ellen Gustafson
#100. Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
Barbara Block
