Three Quotes - page 6

The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve. (Neil Kinnock)
There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. View quote
Jules Verne
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? View quote
Jules Verne
My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping. View quote
Rita Rudner
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. View quote
A. E. Housman
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars. (Peter Atkins)
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. View quote
T. S. Eliot
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. View quote
Aeschylus
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads. View quote
Mel Gibson
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective. View quote
Keanu Reeves
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. View quote
Denis Diderot
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess. View quote
George Steiner
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. (Mary Oliver)
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. View quote
Erma Bombeck
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it. View quote
Will Rogers
There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment. View quote
Steven Gerrard
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. View quote
Confucius