Quotes About Counting

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don't speak English. And who don't count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can't read maps.

What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!

Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.

Five and twenty sturdy budges, bulks, files, clapperdogeons and maunders, counting the dells and doxies and other morts. Most are here, the rest are wandering eastward, along the winter lay. We follow at dawn.

How often?" "Well, some hundreds of times." "Then how many are there?" "How many? I don't know." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.

There was a dense fog in my brain,impenetrable to any coherent thought,except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching state of semi concsiousness and numb idiocy.

Did your parents die of the flu?' 'Yeah, I don't really know how long ago that was now though. It's hard to keep counting the days.' 'You're right about that,' Nick agreed. 'But it's been about two months since the pandemic.' 'Two

Don't count the miles, count the I love you's!

The mathematics of probability enters when we seek a method for enumerating possible cases without actually counting them off

The search of youth is not for all-permissibility, but rather for new ways of directly facing up to what truly counts.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate to a bar.

The diet industry pushes these low calorie, calorie-counting diets, and that's what I want to release people from.

That's one reason I like hot dogs. Nice and clean. And you can count them as they're going down.

I am looking at birds,' snapped the brigadier, unaware that he had inadvertently strayed into the Soviet zone. 'You are looking at our airfield,' said the sentry. 'Utter rot, my dear fellow. I am Brigadier Hinde and I have not the slightest interest in counting your planes. I am looking at birds and you are frightening them away, dash it!

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn't ruined. 153 and I haven't destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

Because that means the day has ended. I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn't ruined. 153 and I haven't destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

That's not gross; that's one gross. It means there's a hundred and forty-four vuvuzelas in each carton.

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I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

The stoniest of greens Plague queens not yet queens Just one beneath can steal the sleep Of maidens counting sheep