Quotes About Counting

Uno-dos-tres": ¿acaso es un simple cántico que aprendemos en la escuela, ese cántico automático que llamamos "contar"? ¿O bien existe una manera de ver a través del cántico y percibir lo que hay detrás y más allá de él, a saber: el reino de los números en sí; de

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

His denomination, he says, is Empiricism. If you can't count it, measure it, or gauge wit with science, it didn't happen.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

When you are 31 years, 7 months, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds old, you've lived your billionth second.

Last I had kept count, there were fifty-six moons among the planets in the Solar System. Then I woke up one morning to learn that another dozen had been discovered around Saturn. After that incident, I decided to no longer keep track.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

Poor boy, the libertine then said, he builds machines to count the infinite, and we have terrified him with the eternal silence of too many infinities. Voila, the end of a fine vocation.

I counted the days. I marked them off on the wall with a piece of coal.

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

One is you, two is me, three is her, four is she!

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

I counted seventy-three shades of grey in an eight-by-ten room.

Even if you have countless blessings, it's good to count them anyway.

How many troubles have they witnessed! Troubles, — ah, but how many mercies too! Think of THESE. Troubles and mercies, — which were most in number in the ten years passed? You can count your troubles, can you count your blessings? Are you willing, in the next ten years, to make this exchange: to let the troubles of the past ten years be the measure of your mercies in the next ten years; and to let the mercies of the past ten years be the measure of your troubles in coming ten?

You can't count the bad things that happen. They don't count against life. They are life. Only count the good things. Let every blessing strengthen you.

Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on.

Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.

Objection 6: Further, evening and morning do not sufficiently divide the day, since the day has many parts. Therefore the words, "The evening and morning were the second day" or, "the third day," are not suitable. Objection 7: Further, "first," not "one," corresponds to "second" and "third." It should therefore have been said that, "The evening and the morning were the first day," rather than "one day.

In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to take days.

Obviously at wit's end, he scrubbed his hands over his face. "Doesn't your breed stop having birthdays at forty?" "We may stop counting, Dr. Carnegie, but that doesn't mean we don't expect an appropriate gift on the occasion.

Tres Cuatro y Cinco

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is the insomnia. Try to relax a little more with every breath out, but your heart's still racing and your thoughts tornado in your head. Nothing works. Not guided meditation. You're in Ireland. Not counting sheep. You count up the days, hours, minutes since you can remember falling asleep.