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Quotes About Counting

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
~ Gray Davis
If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.
~ Renata Adler
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
~ William Shakespeare
The sands are number'd that make up my life.
~ William Shakespeare
The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone had to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone has to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist. Extraordinary, don't you think?
~ Y?ko Ogawa
So who was it? Who discovered zero?" "An Indian mathematician; we don't know his name. The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
To this day I don't know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.
~ David Wong
I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Lanky Belline was in the court counting her ducks. She was thin as a cypress and nearly as tall.
~ Jean Giono
Admittedly, there was an element of counting chickens before they hatched involved in my "next couple of minutes" prediction, since there were still plenty of places that bodies could be hidden. Or, for that matter, sitting out in the open with "Surprise!" written on the floor in their blood. But like I've always said, it's easier to count eggs that are just lying there in the nest than baby chickens that are running all over the place.
~ Jeff Strand
He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME. And father felt ashamed that he hadn't done it more. After that, they got to be such a comfort to him, you know, when things went wrong;
~ Eleanor H. Porter
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Matt thought, as though he couldn't count the weeks for himself.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
I told you--ten minutes, he said, breathing heavily. I don't know how to c-count, Janna said, trying to blink back tears and laughter at the same time. Ty swung up on Lucifer, brought the stallion alongside Zebra and gave Jenna a fierce kiss. Sweet liar.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)
~ Ally Carter
I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.
~ Bob Newhart
I just need to count the rounds and count me money afterwards.
~ Tyson Fury
I've done more than 65 films. I don't count them anymore. The first 10 you count and then you stop.
~ Udo Kier
If people want to take the time to vote, they should be able to, and their vote should be counted.
~ Doug Ducey
I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society.
~ Dean Smith
Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?
~ Jane Yolen
Tonight you're thinking of cities under crowns of snow and I stare at you like I'm looking through a window, counting birds.
~ Richard Siken