Counting Quotes

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. (Tom Stoppard)
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. View quote
Gertrude Stein
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. View quote
Willie Nelson
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them. View quote
Learned Hand
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. View quote
Scott Adams
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do. View quote
Barbara Coloroso
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. View quote
James Hilton
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. View quote
Claire Forlani
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. View quote
Zalmay Khalilzad
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting. (Friedensreich Hundertwasser)
If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility. View quote
James Frazer
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I believe [...] that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. [...] I hope that this book can be read with profit both in seminars for graduate students and-if the movie stinks and you forgot your sleeping pills-on the businessman's special to Tokyo. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age. View quote
P. T. Barnum
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. View quote
Gregory Bateson
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity there is no such jump, and because jump is missing in the world of quantity it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate. View quote
Gregory Bateson
Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace. View quote
Terry Eagleton
When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces. View quote
Ray Charles
I scarcely remember counting upon happiness-I look not for it if it be not in the present hour-nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel. View quote
John Keats
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. (Gottfried Leibniz)
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. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline, kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages.” I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages. View quote
Randall Jarrell
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky