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