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I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning. — Robert Kennedy

My credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art! — Mary Augusta Ward

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal — Roger L'Estrange

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. — John Ruskin

If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third. — Tommy Lasorda

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask. — Robert Breault

Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest. — Deion Sanders

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. — E. O. Wilson

Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it's about finding him; he comes in in the third act. — Ridley Scott

Two thirds of success is skill. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

Most of My Friends are two-thirds water — Kelly Link

When I get to first base, I start thinking about third. — Jose Reyes

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

Mental practice alone produced about two thirds of the benefits of actual physical practice — Chip Heath

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. — Jimmy Carter

Writing is like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time. — Philip Roth

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over. — Woody Allen

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

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre. — Henry Miller

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready. — Anne Royall

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. — Mignon McLaughlin

I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951. — Walter Schloss

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet. — Prince Charles

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. — Will Rogers

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians. — P. J. O'Rourke

And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade! — Robert Earl Keen

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. — Pablo Picasso

A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. — Will Rogers

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. — Dean Rusk

Threat Level Fuchsia. Fuchsia! — Charlie Cochet

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

Some people are born on third base ... — Barry Switzer

It's not enough to keep winning seconds and thirds. At some point, Ted Cruz has actually won on. [Marco] Rubio's got to actually win a state. — Joy-Ann Reid

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive. — H.G.Wells

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day. — John Bracken

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. — Woody Allen

The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035. — Peter Voser

You have to do well on third downs. — Joe Buck

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. — Herman Melville

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. — Norman Ralph Augustine

You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote. — F. W. De Klerk

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Television is the third parent. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox. — Ralph Kiner

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love. — Abraham Isaac Kook

You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do. — Charles F. Haanel

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. — Robert Breault

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class. — Mahatma Gandhi

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. — Joseph Epstein

You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there. — Shelagh Delaney

The third always speaks the unspeakable words. — Tupac Shakur

The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies. — Dick Cheney

Two thirds of leadership is encouragement. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction. — Morgan Ensberg

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate? — Joseph Heller

Third ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you. — Yogi Berra

It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side. — John Gierach

Let the RINOs start a third party — Mark Levin

I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!" — Mitch Hedberg

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of ... the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. — William Blackstone

The third stage is no thought. — Frederick Lenz

So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea. — Ian McEwan

The biggest hit of my life is Agneepath. My second is Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and the third biggest hit is Dhoom 2 — Hrithik Roshan

I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates. — Nick Hornby

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion. — Zadie Smith

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)? — Isabel Allende

The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author. — Donald Maass

In 1997, the government spent $37 billion on military research and development, nearly two-thirds of what the entire world spent on the same. In — Morris Berman

Getting a problem analyzed is two-thirds of solving it. — Robert A. Heinlein

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. — Abraham Lincoln

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Do you seek to bribe Death? Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious. — Piers Anthony

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems. — Norman Ralph Augustine

still under siege, but the Red Army had regained two-thirds of — Susan Butler

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be. — Paul Samuelson

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. — Edwin Powell Hubble

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

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work. — Katherine Anne Porter

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled. — Elizabeth Kolbert

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together — Paul Keating

There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third. — Jose Mourinho

It must be God first, God second, and God third — Oswald Chambers

Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. — Aldous Huxley

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific. — Michael Emerson

I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world. — Chris Cleave

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present — Jean Paul

Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates. — Bauvard

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. — L.M. Montgomery

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. — Pete Rose

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

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives. — Chesley Sullenberger

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

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

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. — Isabel Allende