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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. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. -- Tom Stoppard
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. -- Willie Nelson
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. -- Gertrude Stein
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs. -- Tom Lehrer
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. -- Gottfried Leibniz
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. -- Scott Adams
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. -- Gregory Bateson
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. -- Barbara Coloroso
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
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your . -- Tom Lehrer
Counting blessings is better than recounting problems -- Russell M. Nelson
I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money. -- Thelonious Monk
I have nothing to do with counting the votes. -- Ken Blackwell
Counting time is not as important as making time count. -- Jimmy Walker
Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God. -- Ann Voskamp
Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written]. -- Nat Hentoff
I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American. -- Margaret Cho
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. -- Thomas Jefferson
Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it. -- Gil Kalai
But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much. -- Clay Aiken
Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore. -- Neil L. Andersen
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf. -- Anne Sexton
The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition. -- Robert Frost
Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt. -- Addison Wiggin
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
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them. -- Densey Clyne
Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise. -- Erik Naggum
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
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
Im probably one of the worst people with numbers youve ever met. My brothers always kid that they think Im counting cards in Vegas, but Im just trying to add things up. -- Luke Wilson
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man. -- Barry Sheene
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. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. -- Bill Murray
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. -- Learned Hand
You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity. -- Julia Cameron
Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power. -- Gray Davis
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune. -- Robert Hunter
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. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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. -- Jonny Greenwood
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit. -- Andrea Bocelli
When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.' -- Feist
As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I'm not counting any chickens. -- Jeff Bridges
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. -- Claire Forlani
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. -- Harold Coffin
Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating. -- Mireille Guiliano
The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit. -- John P. Kotter
I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society. -- Dean Smith
When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life. -- Brigitte Bardot
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
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. -- John Kasich
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated. -- Jeff Bezos
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? -- Dave Grohl
Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family. -- Luke Bryan
People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious. -- Michael Douglas
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
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game. -- Wayne Gretzky
When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing. -- Talib Kweli
Well take care of the counting. -- Peter King
Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures. -- Mark Scharenbroich
Love... love... love, never counting the cost. -- Catherine Doherty
I much prefer whining to counting my blessings. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
There are children with dreams counting on us. -- Tom Vilsack
Quit counting time and start making time count -- Zig Ziglar
Let no day go by without counting your blessing. -- John Templeton
Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. -- Al Smith
I have nothing to do with counting the votes. -- Ken Blackwell
There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History. -- J. Arthur Thomson
Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. -- Douglas Adams
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays. -- Barbara Johnson
Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help -- Miyamoto Musashi
There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool. -- L. M. Boyd
There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done. -- Kenny Rogers
Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears. -- Paulo Coelho
The only things worth counting on are people you can count on. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house. -- Montague Burton
Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help. -- Rush Limbaugh
When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none. -- Margaret Millar
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself. -- Bobbie Ann Mason
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice. -- John Henry Newman
Apparently Matts been busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest. -- Joe Teti
Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments. -- Mitch Albom
I'd be counting calories in my head while having conversations and doing crosswords. -- Justine Bateman
When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made. -- Kristen Wiig
"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics". -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting. -- Muhammad Ali
Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad. -- Rick Riordan
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. -- James Russell Lowell
I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future. -- Abdoulaye Wade
The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems. -- Mimi Kennedy
Look for all the world like you're counting the brain cells in his cranium. -- Theodore Annemann
He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all. -- John Grisham
Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am. -- Anthony Liccione
Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else. -- Woodrow M. Kroll
When you stop counting people, you start finding happiness rather than relations for namesake. -- Saurabh Gusain
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come. -- William Hazlitt
Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave. -- Suzanne Collins
In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath. -- Breyten Breytenbach
What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life? -- Chip Conley
The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it. -- Charles Krauthammer
A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change. -- Evan Esar
God is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ. -- Alistair Begg
You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation. -- Dick Dale
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting. -- Albert Einstein
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. -- Gottfried Leibniz
If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket -- Bobby Robson
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house. -- Thomas Malthus
Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. -- Virginia Woolf
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. -- Gottfried Leibniz
America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting. -- Patricia Cori
Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds. -- Douglas Adams
A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs. -- Irv Kupcinet
How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting -- Muhammad Ali

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