If you have been brought up with attacking and trying to get to number two, number three, number four goal, not getting one goal and defend, if that's sort of the mentality that's engraved in you, it's really difficult to do the other thing.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.
I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
I'd been at Everton for more than 11 years. We'd qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I'd been voted manager of the season three times.
I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obesity is a real stretch.
At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
The movies I was scared by at three or four are now some of my favorite movies of all time.
Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert Redford relationship in that film.
