Three Quotes

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

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

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!