Quotes About Counting

Days twenty-eight in second month appear, And one day more is added each leap year: The fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth months run To thirty days, — the rest to thirty-one.

Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, But February twenty-eight alone, Except in leap-year, once in four, When February has one day more.

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty one, Once short February's done.

Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; When short February's done, All the rest have thirty-one.

Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

It is never seven that you count to, before you do something difficult. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.

It is never seven that you count to, before you do something. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.

I know a rancher," says Grace. "When he was in his field with his cows, he counted one hundred and ninety-six. But when he rounded them up, he had two hundred.

counting how many times their hearts beat in a minute. This was called taking your pulse.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.

Take '39 Steps'. When I finished writing it, I counted the number of measures in the composition. I always do this because I am interested in the length of a song. So I counted this one a couple of times because 39 is an unusual number of measures for a song.

But this number, like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can grasp, but as 5.7 million times one. This does not mean some generic image of a Jew passing through some abstract notion of death 5.7 million times. It means countless individuals who nevertheless have to be counted, in the middle of life...

Much needs to be done to fix the gerrymandered system so that each citizen has one equal vote, and so that each vote can be simply counted by a fellow citizen. We need paper ballots, because they cannot be tampered with remotely and can always be recounted.

We need paper ballots, because they cannot be tampered with remotely and can always be recounted.

The High Street was full of farmers, cows, and other animals, the majority of the former well on the road to intoxication. It is, of course, extremely painful to see a man in such a condition, but when such a person in endeavouring to count a perpetually moving drove of pigs, the onlooker's pain is sensibly diminished.

my beauty, flower by flower, star by star, wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

Egotism is pathological self-obsession, a reaction to anxiety about whether one really does count. It is a form of acute selfconsciousness and can be prevented and healed only by the experience of being adequately loved. It is, indeed, a desperate response to frustration of the need we all have to count for something and be held to be irreplaceable, without price.

Men did then no more die by tale and by number. They might put out a weekly bill, and call them seven or eight thousand, or what they pleased; 'tis certain they died by heaps, and were buried by heaps, that is to say, without account.

"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them."

"In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours."

Calendar time is easier to feel than number counts.

For numbers less than 1, you can use a method we call "counting in baskets" to make things start to show up as whole numbers. If you find that .2% of people have a certain trait, use a basket size of at least 500, maybe 1,000, to make them show up as real people. "1 out of 500" or "2 out of 1,000" makes these abstract percentages into real things.