There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Most Powerful Two Thirds quotations
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two party system unfolding.
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life.
There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time.
Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.
Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics.
Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
Women do two thirds of the world's work.
Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning
Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
I guess Satan was the first superhero [.
..] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing.
.. you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.
The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.
In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts.
A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men.
Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
When I'm getting ready to persuade a person, I spend one-third of the time thinking about myself, what I'm going to say, and two-thirds of the time thinking about him and what he is going to say. -Abraham Lincoln Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will be.
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.
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Assurance is two-thirds of success.
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage.
The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.
Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better.
You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.