If we were to select the most intelligent imaginative energetic and emotionally stable third of mankind all races would be present.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second the Epistles; to the third the Revelation.
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win second or third place is not enough.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
I say If everybody in this house lives where it's God first friends and family second and you third we won't ever have an argument.