#third

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#always #exciting #last #life #only

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#black #black hole #everything #hole #love

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. ↗

— Bernard Levin

#begin #cancers #efforts #impressive #naturally

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#another #director #end #fantastic #incredible

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#am #getting #going #him #i

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#away #bad #because #before #did

I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work. ↗

— Nia Long

#because #being #break #did #down

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear. ↗

— James Longstreet

#broken #changed #command #corps #defeat

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome. ↗

— Diana Lopez

#being #being there #brother #coach #come

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. ↗

— Andre Weil

#first #mathematicians #people #rate #second