Quotes About Counting

Why does McDonald's have to count every burger that they sell? What is their ultimate goal? Do they want cows to surrender voluntarily?

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

Courage only counts when you can count.

Thanks," I say. Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough to not even try to derive any tangible benefit from the wealth (aside from the pleasure of regularly counting the beans).

2042 is the year we conquered death, and also the year we stopped counting. Sure, we still numbered years for a few more decades, but at the moment of the immortality, passing time ceased to matter.

I began counting each fool that passed me. I got up to 50 in two-and-one-half-minutes, then stepped into the next bar.

should also be noted that the Constitution's distinction in counting people for representation in Congress was between slave and free, not black and white. Free blacks were counted the same as whites—and free blacks existed before the Constitution existed.

There are some overtly racist and sexist people out there—look around—but in general what we count and what we fail to count is often the result of an unexamined choice, of subtle biases and hidden assumptions that we haven't realized are leading us astray.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

If you can't count they can cheat you. If you can't read they can beat you.

Sky provided the only drama, and counting on a Cincinnati horizon for life's principal joy was reckless indeed.

Sky provided the only drama, and counting on a Cincinnati horizon for life's principal joy was reckless indeed. So

So I counted

At night I count not the stars but the dark.

I think Mr. Hawk forgot that he told us to count all our lightbulbs. Because a few days after he told us to do that, he never asked how many lightbulbs we had. But that was okay. Because I kept forgetting to count them anyway. So if he asked, I was going to have to make up a number and say that my house had one thousand three hundred seventy-six lightbulbs. Because I didn't want to look poor.

Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and ideas to be 'natural': they are often the products of the ideas of audacious thinkers who came before us.

When we say that the volume of a room is, for example, one hundred cubic meters, we are in effect counting the grains of space-the "quanta of the gravitational field"-that it contains. In a room, this number has more than one hundred digits. When we say that the area of this page is forty-five square inches, we are actually counting the number of links in the web, or loops, that traverse the page. Across the page of this book, there is a number of quanta with more or less seventy digits.

he counts to ten as quick as any man, I have seen him do it... though when he needs to go to twenty he does take off his boots.

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens, And his aunts!

We count by years, but we live by days.

so serene, so fun of common purpose; I should have been a man, I·would. not have grown up so· sour, I would have spent my days in the sun doing whatever it. is that men do, digging holes, building fence.s, counting sheep. ·What is there for me in the. kitchen?