#thirds

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

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

— Prince Charles

#covered #globe #i #red #red carpet

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. ↗

— Barber Conable

#earn #income #less #only #own

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. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#average #bachelor #borrow #debt #degree

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

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

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#does #euro #france #like #now

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

— Will Rogers

#explanation #me #one-third #practice #two-thirds

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. ↗

— Pete Rose

#pennant #run #team #two-thirds #usually

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ↗

— John Irving

#i #kind #life #maybe #me

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#both #constitution #constitutional #houses #i