#counting

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

#challenge #coaches #counting #face #just

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#careful #despair #facts #faithful #frankly

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#ballots #collecting #contact #counting #day

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#counting #democracy #voting

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#counting-sheep #humour #boredom

Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die. ↗

— David Almond

#david-almond #death

Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#come #counting #end #going #innumerable

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

#counting #difficult #friend #getting #guy

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#counting #go #i #money #stupid

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#almost #complete #could #entire #entire universe