Three Quotes

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Thomas Aquinas

Desire, Necessary, Salvation

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy

Future, Yourself, Order

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
David Bowie

Time, Long, Down

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid Bergman

Marriage, Enough, Reason

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.
Richard Simmons

Yourself, Two, Healthy

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch

Two, Number, King

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Henry Beston

Nature, Great, Rain

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
Jack Nicholson

Alone, Writing, Two

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner

Woman, Two, Tough

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
Ann Coulter

Political, Control, Matter

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
Lee Iacocca

Business, End, Words

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall

Laziness, Chief, Programmer

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire

Respect, Soldier, Create

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E. M. Forster

Person, Down, Paper

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale

Time, Trouble, Expect

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudner

Mother, Two, Husbands

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
E. O. Wilson

Born, Religions, Disturbed

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
Katy Perry

Life, Love, Time

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
John Burroughs

Truth, Two, Acting

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
John Wilmot

Children, Before, Married

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
Garrison Keillor

Life, Love, Good

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
Joel Rosenberg

Women, Men, Sleep

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.
Graham Nash

After, Left, Guys

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
Elizabeth Edwards

Life, Faith, Family

I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.
Tim McGraw

Work, Tough, Kids

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.
Ellen DeGeneres

Home, Sleep, Two

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Thomas Aquinas

Good, Together, Purpose

I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.
Sara Blakely

Karma, Someone, Give

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
William Hazlitt

Book, Before, Read

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
Doug Coupland

Life, Lost, Cry

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