Quotes on Three

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.

There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart

Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer only three times. Instead, he responded with a different question, a story, or some other indirection. Evidently Jesus wants us to work out answers on our own, using the principles that he taught and lived.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.