Quotes of: Number-three Keyword

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

I have received the command from Heaven: May my time be always long and prosperous.

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

Three Comrades: A Novel of Germany Between the Wars

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Three Comrades: A Novel of Germany Between the Wars

If wishes were held on the skin and swiped by raindrops, then emotions were freeloading off the cells that made up their space. The only offering these cells ever entertained was truth, painful and raw.

Three Fallen Women

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

The Unnamable

Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers

A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things."

The Water Babies

We made love like three seasons, but I didn’t fall.

Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

I’m interested in women as a whole, not simply as three holes.

Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.

The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

Healing comes by three avenues; what one eats, thinks and celebrates.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.

Wrapped In White: Thirteen Tales of Spectres, Ghosts, and Spirits

I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can fly?

The Wedding and Other Short Romantic Stories

His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

The Woman in White

In some stories, it's easy. The moral of "The Three Bears," for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

The Wide Window

Three men walk into a bar. The third guy’s name is 333. The first guy’s name is The Second Guy, and the second guy’s name is I’m Not Lying. One of these men is not like the other two. Which one is why and who?

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