#third

Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#akron #areas #average #between #certain

I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#felt #i #mrs #stigma #third

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#doing #easily #finish #i #i write

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#another #did #die #die hard #first

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. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#almost #ants #insects #know #make

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. ↗

— Danny Glover

#angeles #capacity #central #environment #environmental

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#arguing #around #big #big deal #countries

If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#children #drift #extent #fail #flooded

I don't think about second or third place. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#i #place #second #think #third

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. ↗

— Voltaire

#benefit #government #make #nation #other