#counted

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#dean-koontz #mysteries #the-book-of-counted-sorrows #life

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#apostle #appeared #confirm #could #followers

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. ↗

— James Merrill

#elements #find #forbidding #greek #helped

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#counts #every #must #vote

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#any #because #common #error #kind

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. ↗

— Thomas Reed

#been #being #burned #counted #god

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#caring #counted #formulate #lie #luxury

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#did #game #hope #i #love

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? ↗

— Walter Pater

#dramatic #finest #given #how #life

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#capable #counted #create #crisis #days