#numbered

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

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#forging #four #future #heavily #i

I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#being #chasing #end #felt #forward

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

#assured #authorities #blues #days #good

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield. ↗

— Mark Lawrenson

#midfield #numerically #outnumbered

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

#able #being #being human #called #certainly

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

#avenues #beat #big #fascinating #finger

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

The days of the digital watch are numbered. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#digital #numbered #watch

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