#numbered

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#exactly #figure #first #full-time #full-time job

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

#aimed #being #collective #confrontation #faced

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

#already #anxious #aware #because #days

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 V. Pollio

#benefits #crowns #enjoy #entitled #even

The days of the digital watch are numbered. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#digital #numbered #watch

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents. ↗

— John Culberson

#border #border patrol #completely #enough #outnumbered

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

#cook #gave #i #numbered #people

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

#breaths #indolence #life #loan #manifest

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? ↗

— Woody Allen

#lettered #numbered #our #say #why

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. ↗

— Edward Everett

#advance #dispositions #engaged #fell #force