Counting Quotes - Page 10

• I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down. - Sleeping to Dream

  Jason Mraz

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

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• 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.

  Linda Howard

  Long, Mind, Trying

  Linda Howard (2004). “To Die For: A Novel”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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• I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Believe, Ice, Mouths

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• In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Summer, Pain, Spring

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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

  James Dashner

  Nice, Bulls, Easy

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.381, Scholastic UK

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• He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

  George Herbert

  Book, Needs, Gains

  George Herbert, Ann Pasternak Slater (1995). “The complete English works”

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• Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

  Ovid

  Men, Suffering, He Man

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• Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts, since they are practically infinite in number. We must make a selection. Is it not better to be guided by utility, by our practical, and more especially our moral, necessities?

  Henri Poincare

  Writing, Science, Numbers

  "The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare".

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• Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes

  Jean Anouilh

  Lying, Hero, Race

  Jean Anouilh (1951). “Legend of lovers”

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• There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

  Shannon Miller

  Teacher, Sibling, Gymnastics

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• A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Jobs, Sleep, Insomnia

  A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.

  H. L. Mencken

  Feet, Shining, May

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Gratitude, Adversity, Blessing

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• I count life just a stuff
  To try the soul's strength on.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Strength, Soul

  'In a Balcony' (1855) l. 651

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• Tired of me already?" he asked with a smile in his voice. "No quite yet. You?" His eyes darkened, and he kissed her again. "Never." Her heart skipped a beat. "Never is a long time," she said. His voice was low, fierce. And very sure. "That's what I'm counting on.

  Jill Shalvis

  Tired, Heart, Eye

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• I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• The boy heaved a sigh. "I would ask to go with you," he said, " but I have to finish my lessons. I so look forward to the day when I know everything. Then I won't have to read any more books or do any more counting." Beatrix smiled. "I don't wish to be discouraging, Rye, but it's not possible to know everything." "Mama does." Rye paused reflectively. "At least, Papa says we mus t pretend she does, because it makes her happy." "Your father," Beatrix informed him with a laugh, " is one of the wisest men I've ever known.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Father, Book, Men

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• I'm counting to ten in my head." "Is it helping?" "No." "It doesn't help me with you either. I used to life weights to alleviate frustration, but someone blowtorched my weight bench. How did you do it, by the way?" "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Frustration, Weight, Benches

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.257, Penguin

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• But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.

  A. A. Milne

  Sleep, Insomnia, Sheep

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• Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Waiting, Silent

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

  Alexandra Ripley

  Air, Years, Land

  Alexandra Ripley (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”, G K Hall & Co

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• Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

  Virginia Woolf

  Havens, Wet

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

  Robert Frost

  Positive, Ocean, Heart

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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

  Kristen Wiig

  Made, Deathbed

  "Kristen Wiig is 'happier than ever' thanks to boyfriend". www.ctvnews.ca. July 31, 2012.

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• Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Eye, Self, Ego

  "Ramadan is over, but the struggle goes on". www.abc.net.au. August 20, 2012.

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