Three Quotes - page 5

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. (Fernand Braudel)
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day. View quote
Philip Pullman
The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
If You Have Less Than Three Friends in High School, You're in Good Shape. View quote
Gerard Way
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. View quote
Willie Nelson
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition. View quote
Ornette Coleman
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd The next, in majesty in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go To make a third, she join'd the former two. View quote
John Dryden
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. (Willa Cather)
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. View quote
Dale Carnegie
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. View quote
Robert Browning
There are only three sports bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering all the rest are merely games. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. View quote
Joan Rivers
I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months? View quote
Edith Sitwell
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan. View quote
Jack White
Bloody men are like bloody buses - You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. View quote
Wendy Cope
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions. (John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury)
There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles. View quote
Stephen Covey
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. View quote
Philip Larkin
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it? View quote
David Brin
I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. View quote
Daniel Boone