Counting Quotes

I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe

We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.

The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.

Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them

If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.

I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.

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.

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

Holly died without a friend to hold her hand. Artemis felt her go, another gift of the magic. He kept on counting, brushing away the tears on his cheeks.

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy. Yeah right.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

Look, if you think your need to complain is more important than the lives of the people that are counting on us, go whine somewhere else!

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her face the fresh beauty of morning.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

When you're on your deathbed you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends." Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.

You can usually tell by the look on someone's face if they woke up counting their problems or their blessings.

I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

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

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.

Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.

Well take care of the counting.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

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.