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Time is numbered only to man. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The days of the digital watch are numbered. -- Tom Stoppard
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? -- Woody Allen
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered. -- Ivor Novello
Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris. -- Elliott Carter
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. -- Abu Bakr
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. -- Russell Baker
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. -- Robert Runcie
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. -- Joseph Jacobs
I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps. -- Sigrid Undset
I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered. -- Jason Alexander
Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it. -- Gerry Beckley
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses. -- R. A. Salvatore
Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible implosion is coming. There is no more middle ground. It is one or the other. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered. -- Os Guinness
The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar years are numbered forward and backward from the entire time of His birth. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. -- Alva Myrdal
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. -- Elizabeth Edwards
Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it. -- Joe Elliott
When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro. -- Cary Fukunaga
Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
People are looking for software development that actually does something useful... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered. -- Kent Beck
I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing. -- Colm Feore
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. -- Martin Filler
I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists. -- Matt Groening
I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect. -- Frida Giannini
The holes are numbered. -- Jack Nicklaus
Policemen are numbered in case they get lost. -- Spike Milligan
The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered. -- Peter Drucker
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted. -- E. B. Farnum
There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days -- Iron & Wine
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered, -- Elizabeth Edwards
I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered. -- Steven Wright
If you face just one opponent, and you doubt yourself, you're out-numbered -- Dan Millman
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. -- John Green
I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count. -- Karen Maezen Miller
As days are numbered and life is short, why waste days feeling bad for yourself~? -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Their days [of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton] - their days will be numbered very quickly. -- Donald Trump
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. -- Tom Stoppard
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. -- Ida B. Wells
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own. -- Patrick McGoohan
Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men. -- Bill Vaughan
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. -- Thomas S. Monson
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. -- Stephen King
We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up. -- Raymond Carver
When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered. -- Tony Benn
It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered. -- Iain Banks
Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. -- Samuel Johnson
We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved. -- Mother Teresa
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. -- Marcus Aurelius
As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me. -- H. Rider Haggard
Every step of the way we walk the line Your days are numbered, so are mine Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape -- Bob Dylan
All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered. -- Marianne Williamson
June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial. -- Lucy Larcom
The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies. -- Daniel Handler
... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family. -- Lois Wyse

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