Three Quotes

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

~ Confucius

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

~ Mark Mckinnon

The average customer comes into McDonald's three to four times a month, and I'm absolutely convinced that can fit in very comfortably into a balanced diet.

~ Steve Easterbrook

I have to stay in shape for the physical endeavour stunts I do. I work out a lot. I have a personal trainer. I go two or three times a week. I'm on a diet where I photograph everything I eat and send it to her.

~ Keith Barry

I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.

~ Robert Atkins

I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off.

~ Josh Young

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

~ John Mortimer

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

~ Yahoo Serious

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

~ Robert Jay Lifton

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

~ Gerald F. Lieberman

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

~ Louis Agassiz

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

~ Joe Scarborough

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

~ Paul Theroux

I have a couple of go-to sneakers off the pitch. I like to have shoes that I can slip on and wear with anything. I travel often, so it's about finding those two or three pairs of shoes that can go with any outfit, whether they go with leggings or a skirt or a dress or jeans.

~ Alex Morgan

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again.

~ Al Pacino

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

~ George Ade

Normally, it takes me about three years to write one of the big books. It is usually four years between releases because of the huge amount of travel and PR and just nuisance going on around them. I have a lot of pressure from publishers and agents.

~ Diana Galbadon

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

~ Lewis Carroll

The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, meals, and surprises for my birthday. It was like one continuous gift.

~ Chris Wood

I grew up in Queens, and part of my birthday gift, always, was a Saturday matinee of whatever hit musical there was. When I was three, I saw 'Oliver!'.

~ Lonny Price

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

~ Tim Burton

Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.

~ Troy Duffy

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.

~ Bhagat Singh

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

~ Charles Stanley

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

~ Rudy Giuliani

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

~ Princess Diana

I was born out of a Vegas marriage: My parents got married three days after they met.

~ Elle King

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

~ Deborah Moggach

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

~ Laurence J. Peter

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

~ Laurence J. Peter

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

~ Imelda Marcos

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

~ Steven Wright

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

~ Elayne Boosler

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

~ Nancy Allen

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

~ Simone Weil

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

~ Eric Alterman

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Stretching back nearly three decades, Brian Williams and I have forged an enduring friendship. It all began in 1986 at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia and has resulted in a set of noteworthy experiences, amazing successes, and a bunch of trips to NASCAR speedways.

~ Steve Capus