Three Quotes - Page 4

• Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Men, Dysfunction

  Michael Bloomberg's State of the City Address, www.gothamgazette.com. January 17, 2007.

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• Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

  Friedrich Engels

  Years, Victory, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia) (1957). “K. Marx and F. Engels on religion”

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• ... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Race, Two

  Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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• There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.

  Paula Abdul

  Exercise, Size, Meals

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• There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Views, Perspective, Opinion

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• ... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Two, Silence, Surface

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

  Storm Jameson

  Jobs, Motherhood, Careers

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• I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Jane or Susan, so when three people get into bed together, you don't know who they are.

  Jackie Collins

  Night, Names, People

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• When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

  B. B. King

  Sleep, Leaving, Way

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• Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Blow, Meals, Yeast

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Murder Must Advertise”, p.86, Open Road Media

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• Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

  Stella Benson

  Age, Twenties, Share

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.

  Dervla Murphy

  Baby, Years, Tables

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• My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

  Joan Crawford

  Years, Age, Looks

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

  Joan Crawford

  Expression, Helping, Shearer

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Glasses, Years, Office

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• By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating -- merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.

  Brigid Brophy

  Book, Fall, Age

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• Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.

  Audre Lorde

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

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• no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Self, Two, Groups

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• Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

  Mary Stewart

  Party, Two, Political

  Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Two, Want

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• I came home for a week after I finished filming Rambo because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.

  Graham McTavish

  Home, Rambo, Months

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• I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

  Kiki Dee

  Kids, Singing, Age

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• It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Mother, Cat, Journey

  Selma Lagerlöf (1936). “Mårbacka”

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• If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Taken, Heart

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• One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Memories, Cat, Eye

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