Counting Quotes - Page 3

• Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Priorities

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 19, 2016

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wisdom, Blessing, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

  Liam Gallagher

  People, Giving, Energy

  14 Copy quote

• Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Simultaneous, Wilson, Chamber

  16 Copy quote

• But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

  Clay Aiken

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  7 Copy quote

• It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  People, Voting, Important

  "Sudan to Close Baghdad Embassy". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heartbroken, Guy, Old Friends

  53 Copy quote

• Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Spiritual, Powerful, Kindness

  Dannion Brinkley, Paul Perry (2009). “Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received”, p.20, Harper Collins

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.

  Woody Allen

  Education, Writing, Science

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Summer, Graduates, Wanted

  7 Copy quote

• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.

  116 Copy quote

  Show source

• People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Integrity, Failure, People

  71 Copy quote

• I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Blessing, Whining, My Blessing

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.14, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Kenny Rogers

  Done, Enough

  "Song: "The Gambler" ("The Kenny Rogers Singles Album")". www.theguardian.com. 1979.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Statistics, Wave

  This Side of Paradise (p. 244)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

  Thomas S. Monson

  God, Religious, Women

  76 Copy quote

• It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fake People, Freedom, Democracies Have

  Jumpers act 1 (1972) See Nast 1; Somoza 1

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

  Eric Weiner

  Helping Others, People, Feel Good

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.187, Random House

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Eric Thomas

  Wake Up, Reason, Individual

  4 Copy quote

• I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

  Roald Dahl

  Believe In Yourself, Pockets, Littles

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Hope, Expectations

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2091, Delphi Classics

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three

  Bob Goff

  Night, Heaven, Three

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Mar 29, 2013

  78 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

  Ken Blackwell

  Vote

  8 Copy quote

• If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.

  Robert Browning

  Relationship, Heart, Sunshine

  14 Copy quote

• I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wall, Science, Numbers

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.301, W. W. Norton & Company

  9 Copy quote

  Show source