Three Things Quotes

• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivational, Success, People

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• A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Two, Imagination

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• There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Pain, Wine

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Three, Attention, Pay

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• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Lightning, Rolling Along

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

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• As editor of WikiLeaks, I am very proud of three things. Number one, we have never got it wrong in terms of what we say. A document is what it is. Number two, we have never revealed one of our sources ever. Number three, what are we proud of? We are proud that there is not a single instance of anyone coming into physical harm as a result of our publication.

  Julian Assange

  Editors, Two, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

  Thomas Hood

  Three, Novelty, Clamor

  "The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All the Original Illustrations".

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  Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  "Henry James: A Life". Book by Leon Edel. Volume 5: "The Master 1901-1916", 1972.

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• There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

  Mario Lopez

  Sports, Sisterhood, Men

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• To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

  Reba McEntire

  Life, Success, Positivity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Teenager, Cat

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Water, Cooking, Energy

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• 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

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dark, Hard Times, Two

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• I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Discipline, Community

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.19, A&C Black

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• Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

  Dorothy Allison

  Two, Naked, Three

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• In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Peace, Powerful, War

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 40, Article 1, pp. 1359-1360), 1485.

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• There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.

  Alec Baldwin

  Men, People, Three

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• Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

  Eric Bana

  Frustration, Careers, Arrogance

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• They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

  Tom Bodett

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Tom Bodett (1985). “As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport: The View from the End of the Road : Comments and Comic Pieces”, Perseus Books

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• I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

  Bono

  War, Believe, Book

  Bono's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 2006.

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• There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

  Harlan Coben

  Inspiration, Three, Desperation

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• There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

  Evan Davis

  Strong, Degrees, Population

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Ipads, Watches, Three

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