For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Doris Lessing

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Diogenes

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
George Takei

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.
Daniel Goleman

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
Thomas S. Monson

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
Lynn Abbey

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Salman Rushdie

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
George Herbert

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
Jim Harrison

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
Arthur C. Clarke

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
Bruce Willis

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

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Ayrton Senna

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
Carroll Quigley

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.
Stephen Harper

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
Stephen Harper

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung