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Quotes About Counting

The sacrilegious moment had come for counting and preserving; and the gods are insulted. Everything after this moment goes mysteriously awry, as heretofore it had gone mysteriously right.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
Qué relación guardas con el tiempo cuando lo tienes contado?
~ David Foenkinos
she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn't breathe, God would grant her another day
~ Khaled Hosseini
The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
~ David Mitchell
Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.
~ Georges Lefebvre
I have an abacus at home.
~ Conan O'Brien
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
~ Gertrude Stein
If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.
~ Anthony Liccione
I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.
~ Russell Howard
If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.
~ Douglas Adams
Right now counts forever.
~ R. C. Sproul
INFINITY is an illusion, we are just too lazy to count...
~ Andy Flynn
The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you
~ Freya Stark
Males categorize their worlds by counting, naming, and organizing the objects they confront. Women, in addition to personalizing their topics, talk in a more dynamic way, focusing on how their topics change. Discussions of change require more verbs.
~ James W. Pennebaker
The Munduruku have many things, but not enough numbers to count them. Cantor has provided us with as many numbers as we like, but there are no longer enough things to count.
~ Alex Bellos
Io non conto i giorni - diceva - ma i piaceri".
~ Alfred de Musset
Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.
~ Jeff Dunham
I knew someone who used to go to sleep counting, not sheep, but people against whom he had grievances—bullies from childhood, kindergarten teachers, back to nannies even, bosses, employees, anybody awful up to the preceding day.
~ Renata Adler
Thirty days hath November,April, June, and September,February hath twenty-eight alone,And all the rest have thirty-one.
~ Richard Grafton
Five syllables, Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. That would be real bad.
~ Rick Riordan
The counting in Los Angeles was slow. Every unopened box was guarded by armed Democrats, who believed that tampering had robbed them of a presidential victory in 1876.
~ Ken Follett
In year three, he became two years old, and so on. So this year, nine hundred and ninety-seven, he becomes nine hundred and ninety-six.
~ Ken Follett
We can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
~ Ken Kesey