Counting Quotes

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

It was the oddest feeling. I thought Laci Peterson needed me; I thought she was counting on me to bring her and her baby home.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

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.

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

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

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

I'm not counting any chickens.

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

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

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.

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.

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.

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

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

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

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

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.