A Quote by Ian Fleming

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Ian Fleming

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Ian Fleming
British - Author
May 28, 1908 - August 12, 1964

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Mae West

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

Confucius

Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.

Peter Forsberg

There's nothing more annoying than losing your phone, but this happened to me not once or twice, but three times in a row!

Madhura Naik

The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more.

Frank Stella

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.

Hugh Jackman

We are a challenger bank; let me say that once, twice, and three times if necessary because people still sometimes think of us as being very big.

Ana Patricia Botin

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson

If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.

Genghis Khan

And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

Carl Sandburg

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

Tobias Lutke

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

Grace Hopper

I love the idea that if you watch something twice, three times, four times, you'll continuously notice new things.

Alex Hirsch

When you win something, once, twice, three times, and you have that feeling, that pushes you forward again. You want to win more and more and more.

Luka Modric

Nobody knows how long they have left on Earth. There's no guarantees, and for me, when they tell you - not once, twice, three times - 'You've got a couple weeks to live,' or a couple months, you have to determine how you want to do that.

Craig Sager

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