Counting
I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Business, Counting, Legal
In literature, there is no such thing as wasted time. Every word counts.
Author: A. B. YehoshuaTopics: Counters, Counting, Countries, Things, Think, Think off, Thinking, Times, Times of difficulty, Wasted, Wastfulness, Word, Word pressure
There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us… It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.
Topics: Among, Counting, Dare, Dares, Dark, Develops, Devil, Leading, Leads, Master, Masterpiece, Times, Times of difficulty
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
Author: Robert FrostTopics: Counting, Devotion, Famous, Greater, Heart, Holding, Position, Repetition
I have tried to keep memory alive… I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Alive, Counting, Fight, Figure, Forget, Forgetting, Guilty, Member, Memories, Memorization
You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying “one, two, three, four, five protons”, they say, ‘hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron.’
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Complicated, Counting, Famous, Instead, Protons
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Author: Confucius
Topics: Ashamed, Badly, Counting, Country, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Poverty, Something, Something for nothing
But you can’t focus on things that matter if all you’ve been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Counting, Focus, Focused, Follow, Matter, Mature, Nation of sheep, Sleep, Sleeping world, Stay, Stay focused
I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That’s how I describe myself.
Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Behaves, Behaviour, Beholder, Counting, Described, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Old Story, Older, Year
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Count, Counting, Expenditure, First annual, Happiness, Happy, Number, Similar results, Similarity, Simple