Counting Quotes - Page 14

• I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should
  be free, and see his family and friends once more.

  Harriet Tubman

  Home, Men, Thinking

  "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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• I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt

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• To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

  Omar Khayyam

  Heaven, Sorrow, Morrow

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film's not rolling. There's constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, "Why did my line count drop?" It's a nasty tense environment.

  Adam McKay

  Rolling, Actors, Lines

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• Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.

  John Hodgman

  Car, Buttons, Three

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.

  Paul Walker

  People, Trying, Hungry

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I live by the motto, 'To whom much is given, much is required.' I know that people are counting on me. That's why I have to keep working hard.

  Dwyane Wade

  People, Motto, Given

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• Prince would have been the person I thought would live forever because of the way he took care of himself - not counting the fact he jumped off risers in 6-inch heels. He probably had fractures from his feet all the way up to his head.

  Stevie Nicks

  Feet, Forever, Care

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

  Sarah Barthel

  People, Innovative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Doe, Poet

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Fall, Rain

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Compassion, Government, Numbers

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• If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Creativity, Night, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• There are four people in my life, not counting my reps who know everything, two of whom are my parents, that know everything, so that when I feel like I need to let it out, I can talk to any of those four people.

  Natalie Zea

  Two, People, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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• If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Hands, Years

  "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by John H. George and Paul Boller, pp. 26-27, 1989.

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• 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.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, Writing, Hypocrite

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• One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.

  Edmund Wilson

  Art, Believe, Giving

  Edmund Wilson (1997). “The Edmund Wilson Reader”

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• 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.

  John Elof Boodin

  Hope, Morning, Laughter

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

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Weather, House, Way

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.45, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Joy, Dieting, Eating

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• There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

  John Ralston Saul

  Silly, Men, Civilization

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Rights, Optimism

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Rybalka, Michel Contat, Richard C. McCleary (1985). “The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• Abundance is the natural state of the universe--of this there can be
  no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the heavens or drops of water in the ocean is beyond counting, so are the spiritual and material blessings that have been prepared for us.

  Douglas Bloch

  Spiritual, Stars, Ocean

  Douglas Bloch (2015). “A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom”, p.90, BookBaby

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• Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Smart, Phones, Worry

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• There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

  L. M. Boyd

  Animal, Sharks, Pool

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