Quotes About Counting

You would know the value of time, the day you start counting not the hours, but the seconds they contain, and what you did with them.

A thousand was the number Agamemnon's bards had started using; one thousand, one hundred and eighty-six didn't fit well in a line of verse.

No hay que confundir el sentido del número con la facultad de contar. Únicamente la inteligencia humana puede alcanzar un grado de abstracción capaz de permitir el acto de contar, aunque el sentido del número está presente en muchos animales.

retirement is actually considered to be a kind of liberation and rebirth, an opportunity finally to take time to live—to live without counting, to take one's time without further concerns about age.

Tu t'es beaucoup ennuyée? – Soixante-quatre voitures sont passées dans ta rue, dont dix-neuf vertes!

First goddamn chicken we've had to count, and I'm counting the sonofabitch

pulled the money bag up to the passenger seat. He reached inside the bag, pulled out a banded stack of bills. It was a half inch thick, all hundreds. He riffled the stack with his thumb, put it back in the bag, and attempted to tally the number of

You want to know why you're stressing? You're counting the wrongs in your life instead of the blessings.

Learning to count is good. Learning what counts is better.

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.

For while an event for which we are longing never happens quite in the way we have been expecting, failing the advantages on which we supposed that we might count, others present themselves for which we never hoped, and make up for our disappointment; and we have been so dreading the worst that in the end we are inclined to feel that, taking one thing with another, chance has, on the whole, been rather kind to us.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

If one by one we counted people out

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Yeah, that's likely," Jolie replied, her voice keen with sarcasm. "And until then, we'll count the bluebirds and rainbows shooting out of my ass.

Thirty-Four The Third Day Thirty-Five Thirty-Six Thirty-Seven Thirty-Eight Thirty-Nine Forty Forty-One Forty-Two Forty-Three Forty-Four

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

Start three bars before something.

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous sonnet. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....