Counting Quotes - Page 12

• The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Beauty, Art

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• The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Pride, Marine, Fighting

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.482, Open Road Media

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• Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Thinking, Punishment, Deities

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

  Barry Diller

  Thinking, Ideas, Years

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• Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.

  William H. Gass

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Pride

  William H. Gass (1997). “Finding a Form: Essays”, p.179, Cornell University Press

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• Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

  Gil Kalai

  Pairs, Mathematics, Tricks

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• No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.

  Mark Zandi

  Retirement, Home, Winning

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• Apparently Matts been busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Toes, Busier

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• Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

  Felix Dennis

  Money, People, Degrees

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.14, Penguin

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• O my God, teach me to be generous
  to serve you as you deserve to be served
  to give without counting the cost
  to fight without fear of being wounded
  to work without seeking rest
  and to spend myself without expecting any reward
  but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will.
  Amen

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fighting, Giving, Cost

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• At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

  Todd Solondz

  Reading, Writing, Creative

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• I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed. Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beauty, Art, Mean

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• If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay
  any eggs in the basket

  Bobby Robson

  Eggs, Chickens, Baskets

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• If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.

  Robert Liparulo

  Strong, Heart, Fighting

  Robert Liparulo (2009). “Watcher in the Woods: Dreamhouse Kings, Book #2”, p.113, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I had no idea what was in store for me this season. This is the first time I've been a part of a true team sport, and there's someone else counting on you. You can't let that person down, and that's what drives me.

  Lauryn Williams

  Sports, Team, Ideas

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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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• You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.

  Steve Harvey

  Order, Law, Csi

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• 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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• Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Two, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.265, Hachette UK

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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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• 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 swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Opportunity, Receiving, Deeds

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Compassion, Government, Numbers

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