Top 256 Thirds Quotes & Sayings

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world.

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male.

You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

The Senate must approve any deal President Obama negotiates with Iran by a two-thirds majority vote.

Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection.

A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

Two-thirds of us in the U.S. don't have a passport. I'm here to say that travel is the best, most mind-expanding thing we can do with our hard-earned extra money.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

When you have two-thirds of possession in any match you have got to turn that pressure into points.

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

Americans did not suffer alone. World trade overall fell two-thirds in the first few years of the Depression.

The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!"

Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.

I have always done what I thought was best for my country, never varying unless I was advised that two-thirds of the Democrats were for a bill and then I voted for it.

The whole first two-thirds of the I Just Can't Stop Loving You song is just he and I. He's singing lead and I'm doing all the harmonies and we're both singing all the background. We're singing all the choruses until the choir comes in. We were the first two-thirds of the song.

When I'm writing, I won't know whodunnit until maybe two thirds of the way through. Until then, I know as little as my detective. I just make it up as I go along. It's nerve-wracking, actually. You'll be half through and not know your conclusion. You worry one of these days the ending won't come. I'll be left with only two-thirds of a novel.

Most of My Friends are two-thirds water

Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

I want us to do more to help small business. That's where two- thirds of the new jobs are going to come from.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

People don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational marijuana are now legal. Two-thirds of the country. I am looking at it as kind of a 10th Amendment, states'-rights issue.

Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest.

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.