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One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere. -- Dean Rusk
One third of the economy goes through 'QuickBooks' in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do. -- Aaron Patzer
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. -- Will Rogers
I will cut all state taxes by at least one third. -- Sonny Landham
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. -- Alan Perlis
I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones. -- Susan Minot
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. -- Will Rogers
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. -- Pete Rose
One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors. -- Rupert Grint
You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own. -- Connie Mack
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. -- Isabel Allende
The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one. -- Ethan Embry
I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people. -- Woody Guthrie
I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.' -- Wole Soyinka
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. -- Tommy Lasorda
Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization. -- Shimon Peres
Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do. -- Dennis Prager
I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country. -- Jeff Sessions
When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them. -- Ram Dass
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third -- Angelina Jolie
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. -- L.M. Montgomery
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. -- L.M. Montgomery
Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams. -- George Allen
If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about. -- Brandon Jacobs
U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation -- Henry A. Kissinger
I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell. -- Zell Miller
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre. -- Henry Miller
Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work. -- Katherine Anne Porter
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person. -- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. -- Robert Breault
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. -- Jimmy Carter
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike. -- Robert Frost
Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one. -- Jim Hightower
He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. -- Damon Runyon
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. -- Bernard Levin
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I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning. -- Robert Kennedy
Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third. -- Nazr Mohammed
One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country. -- Joe Slovo
I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today. -- Walter Schloss
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine. -- Mira Grant
That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. -- Jorge Luis Borges
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry. -- Huston Smith
Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons. -- H. L. Mencken
10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate? -- Rachel Vincent
I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops. -- Rick Perry
There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third! -- Louis St. Laurent
When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one. -- Toba Beta
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. -- Chuck Palahniuk
And people is the most important part of my job. I spend one third of my time on people. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income. -- Bernie Sanders
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains. -- Scott Lynch
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. -- Fidel Castro
Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section. -- Dan Jenkins
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. -- Ralph Borsodi
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. -- Peter Singer
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. -- John Green
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. -- Benjamin Franklin
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. -- Joseph Epstein
Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it's about finding him; he comes in in the third act. -- Ridley Scott
One final glance back at the hotel. Philias Switchmoat the Third, stepping from the curb and in to a puddle. Disappeared. -- Stephen J. Day
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross. -- Zack Snyder
In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper. -- John Motson
In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different. -- David Walton
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. -- Plato
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. -- Salman Rushdie
You rarely think about just throwing to third base to get one out. That's probably the industry's fault with all of that. -- Joe Maddon
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. -- R. A. Salvatore
When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion. -- Zadie Smith
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. -- Hilaire Belloc
If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. -- Colin Firth
When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done. -- Manfred von Richthofen
Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. -- Gerald Durrell
Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program. -- Joe Baca
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. -- Thomas Huxley
Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over. -- Junot Diaz
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. -- Sarah Waters
If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person. -- Chris Wooding
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty. -- Summer Altice
Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing. -- Robert Scoble
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one. -- Sarah Waters
Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one. -- Gary Ackerman
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed. -- Benjamin Graham
I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children! -- Donald Trump
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not. -- Don Frye
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it -- Jules Henry
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third. -- John Marsden
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far. -- Robert Browning
One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big. -- Frank Knight
How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened. -- Gerald Morris
According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we thought. -- Jay Leno
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need. -- Jan Egeland
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever. -- David Sills
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction, -- Pope Francis
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself. -- H. H. Asquith
To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth. -- Philip Larkin
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is. -- D. H. Lawrence
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. -- Ian Mcewan
One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him. -- Lefty Gomez
I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama. -- Elvis Presley
By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's. -- Evan Osnos
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. -- Will Rogers
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. -- Howard Nemerov
I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name, -- Chord Overstreet

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