Top 100 Quotes About Three Things
#1. There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.
Sonia Choquette
#2. Three things ruin a man," Harry would tell a reporter long afterward. "Power, money, and women. "I never wanted power," he said. "I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." On
David McCullough
#3. Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.
Ray Davies
#4. Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.
Selena
#5. I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.
Rachael Taylor
#6. In three long strides, Chris was leaning into me, pressing my back up against the building His palms flattened against mine, our fingers interlocking above my head. "Let me uncomplicate things for you." He closed his eyes, leaned his head forward, and pressed his lips against mine.
Andrea K. Robbins
#7. I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
R.L. Stine
#8. Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.
Jim Butcher
#9. The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.
Angela Bassett
#10. There's a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.
Temple Grandin
#11. People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
James Taylor
#12. I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways to say X thing, but one will say it better than the other two. And in saying it better, it gets you closer to something.
Claudia Rankine
#13. In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.
Kevin Spacey
#14. Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.
Camillus De Lellis
#15. Here are three things you should know about the God you serve: First, if He has called you to a work, His angels go before you, beside you, and behind you (Psalm 91:11).
Selected
#16. When John O'Malley was a Jesuit novice, an older priest told him three things to remember when living in community: First, you're not God. Second, this isn't heaven. Third, don't be an ass.
James Martin
#17. Time and ka and trains. I'm thinking about them and many other things.
(Lady of Shadows: Dark Tower, The Drawing of the Three)
Stephen King
#18. A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
Barry Goldwater
#19. Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
Mercedes Lackey
#20. Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here it is right now - three minutes after three - happening to ME, and to you.
William, Saroyan
#21. There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
Kiefer Sutherland
#22. There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.
Paul Weller
#23. Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot. You want those? Add more panels.
Dan Slott
#24. It is, of course, true that I have given priority to the settling of the problem of security and the problem of Irian Barat, although I knew that in order to do these things, almost three-quarters of our national product had to be spent.
Sukarno
#25. Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
Gautama Buddha
#26. By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.
Gautama Buddha
#27. I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball. They're the three most beautifully designed things this culture has ever produced.
Gerald Early
#28. My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff.
Hester Browne
#29. I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.
Louise Penny
#30. Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
Eric Barker
#31. I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.
Simon Cowell
#32. If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
Dan Jenkins
#33. Give the citizens of our fair seaport a real vote and they will do one of three things: vote for their own tribe, vote for the Islamists, or vote for whoever paid them the most money.
G. Willow Wilson
#34. 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.
Horace Walpole
#35. There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
Sam Walton
#36. He could have done one of three things. He didn't do either.
Gordon Strachan
#37. Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.
Vincent De Paul
#38. As for my constant low-grade state of confusion - the Blur is a term that seems to be sticking - let me break it into three categories: (1) things I should know but never learned, (2) things I choose not to know, and (3) things I know but totally screw up.
Maria Semple
#39. So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#40. Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.
Chanakya
#41. Her ambitions were no longer specifically for happiness or financial security or freedom from disease (thought they included all three), but for something more general: the continuing certainty of things. She needed to know that she would carry on being herself.
Julian Barnes
#42. I've been using the same thing I've used since I was a teenager, which is Cetaphil. I love Cetaphil's cleansing cream, face cream and aloe vera gel. Those are the three things I always use.
Bianca Lawson
#43. I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.
Ronald Reagan
#44. I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
Natalia Tena
#45. I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
Mads Mikkelsen
#46. Having done 'Misfits' for three years solid, you become known for doing one thing, so I've wanted to change things up as much as possible with each job.
Antonia Thomas
#47. Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.
Brother Lawrence
#48. The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
E. E. Cummings
#49. I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
Agnes De Mille
#50. Clyde had a theory that women had a book, a homemade, photocopied three-ring binder called "Surprising Things to Do in a Relationship," which they passed around to one another, adding pages from time to time, hiding it under the bed. He figured that Desiree could run home tonight and add a new page.
Neal Stephenson
#51. Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at this distance.
Alexander Pope
#52. The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!
Daniel H. Pink
#53. I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can't be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary ... I forget the third thing.
Tom Stoppard
#54. To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.
Chris Raschka
#55. Specifically, I ask that my scenes do three things: Advance the story Reveal new information Pull the reader forward
Rachel Aaron
#57. When one buys a pair of shoes, one is buying three things, the right shoe, the left shoe and the pair.
A.J. Ayer
#58. Everything in her life was in flux and she needed strong, steady and stable. Oddly, she found those three things in me. Who would ever have guessed I'd be the reliable sort?
Katie McGarry
#59. When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
Landon Donovan
#60. We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things."
Wilferd Peterson
#61. The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.
Robert Benchley
#62. There are, aren't there, only three things that we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it.
C.S. Lewis
#63. And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.
Thomas Browne
#64. There are three things without which there is no country
common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land
for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.
Thomas Davis
#65. There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep!
A. Louise Robertson
#66. My style icon actually is my three sisters. I love the way they dress and the way they put things together. I definitely get most of my style from them.
Kendall Jenner
#67. Bad things always happen in three.
Jane Green
#68. It is for this reason that Aristotle recommends that the writer begin "in the middle of things" and fill in the exposition as he can. But for purposes of discussion it will be useful to treat the three components separately.
John Gardner
#69. 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.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#70. Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'
Estelle Getty
#71. What did ye talk about with the ladies?"
"Lots of things," she replied " The Three step rule, oral sex-"
"Holy Christ Almighty" He pressed a hand to his brow. "They were supposed to teach you how to shampoo yer hair, no' give you instructions on oral sex!
Kerrelyn Sparks
#72. The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
Lin Yutang
#73. Ain't but three things in this world worth a solitary dime/
But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine
Tom T. Hall
#74. Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Harry S. Truman
#75. After fighting a brush fire at the base of Cedar Ridge for ten straight hours, Aidan Kincaid had only three things on his mind: sex, pizza, and beer. Given the way the day had gone, he'd gladly take them in any order he could get them.
Jill Shalvis
#76. He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered whether God was alien and cruel, but then remembered Beethoven and the dappling of things and "Hurrah for Karamazov" and kindness. He
William Peter Blatty
#77. 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
#78. In the same way many Christians
whole generations of them, sometimes entire denominations
have in their possession a book which will do a thousand things not only in and for them but through them in the world. And they use it to sustain only three or four things they already do.
N. T. Wright
#79. As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.
Marshall Curry
#80. Night after night, my mom had us name three nice things our siblings had done for us, and each night we were somehow able to come up with something. And
Nicholas Sparks
#81. There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
Herman Cain
#82. To make a perfect horseman, three things are requisite. First, to know how and when to help your horse. Secondly, how and when to correct him. And thirdly, how and when to praise him and to make much of him.
Thomas Blundeville
#83. In order not to make him a fixed idea, a regret, a struggle, - three things which poison life.
Honore De Balzac
#84. Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this need to be said 2) "Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now?
Craig Ferguson
#85. Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to?
Dada Bhagwan
#86. The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes - picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and conducting operations.
Ram Charan
#87. But I'm gonna make sure when you leave here, you'll know three things very well. How to think. How to not die. And how to live." For
Lucian Bane
#88. Spike Spiegel: Hey, Jet, did you know that there are three things that I hate?
Jet Black: Whatever ...
Spike Spiegel: Kids ... animals ... and women with atitude.
Jet Black: Oh?
Spike Spiegel: So why do we have all three neatly gathered on our ship!
Keiko Nobumoto
#89. I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.
Alice Temperley
#90. You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.
Rose George
#91. Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
Dante Alighieri
#92. To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
Leo Tolstoy
#93. Your time, energy and words.
Three things you can never get back once they've been exchanged. Choose wisely.
Keysha Jade
#94. I only believed in three things: my right fist, my left fist, and my gut.
Jaye Wells
#95. In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.
Rhoda Janzen
#96. There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.
Tom Curren
#97. John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.
Eli Wallach
#98. I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
Pope Francis
#99. I possess the three things guaranteed to make life pleasant: wealth, power and a big
cock.
K.A. Mitchell
#100. Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.
Walter Isaacson
