Top 100 Numbered Quotes
#1. The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.
H.G.Wells
#2. By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him
every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance
all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us
lavishly.
Beth Moore
#3. Satan was seen buying a cafe au lait of Friday the thirteenth in the year of the dog. He was wearing a Mexican wrestling mask and a monocle on a gold chain the color of the sun. The lights of the casino filled his good eye. Our days are numbered, our weeks are fading away.
Michael Bible
#4. It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.
Grover Cleveland
#5. Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.
Anthony Liccione
#6. Christianity is a Gospel of crisis. It proclaims unmistakably that this world's days are numbered.
Billy Graham
#7. The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Tom Stoppard
#8. I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.
Steven Wright
#9. Enjoy it. One way or another, your days are numbered.
Dan Brown
#10. Each star, numbered. Each star, named! Like every grain of sand. Every hair on his head. Every trouble that filled his day. Created. Numbered. Known.
Max Lucado
#11. You have given me an infinity within the numbered days, and for that I am eternally grateful.
John Green
#12. A city sparkles in the night
How can it glow so bright?
The neighborhoods surround the soft florescent light
Designer skyline in my head
Abstract and still well-read
You went from numbered lines to buildings overhead
Owl City
#13. We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
Raymond Carver
#14. If I take dust in my hand and ask you if that is all the dust there is, you will answer that dust is everywhere on earth. More specks than can ever be numbered. So I can give you a handful of truth only. Besides this there are other truths. More than can ever be numbered.
Nadeem Aslam
#15. I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
R.A. Salvatore
#16. In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about
which things numbered in the dozens right now
or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.
C.E. Murphy
#17. Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From now on, Punzel, we're going to live by the sun and the seasons.' He picked me up and spun me around, laughing.'Our days will be endless.
Claire Fuller
#18. I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.
Jason Alexander
#20. The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar years are numbered forward and backward from the entire time of His birth.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#21. When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.
Cary Fukunaga
#22. Not so long ago the Earth numbered 2 billion inhabitants, i.e., 500 million men and 1.5 billion "natives." The first possessed the Word, the others borrowed it.
Frantz Fanon
#23. Before he knew he was immortal. Before life was no longer fragile. Those were the days when life truly meant something.
When life was hard but worthwile, and love was valuable because your days were numbered.
That was living.
Chelsea Fine
#24. The pages aren't numbered, so I don't know whether I have the beginning or end or whether it's in sequence but these days I'm not really looking for continuity. All I'm after is something that makes sense to me.
Melina Marchetta
#25. The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.
Ezra Hall Gillett
#26. Many of us had lost everything and left saying nothing at all. All of us left wearing white numbered identification tags tied to our collars and lapels.
Julie Otsuka
#27. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.
Patrick McGoohan
#28. The wise know their days are numbered and act accordingly.
Michael Hyatt
#29. It was then that I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women (Allende 429)
Isabel Allende
#30. Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible implosion is coming. There is no more middle ground. It is one or the other.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#31. If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
Stephen King
#32. The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered.
Joseph Jacobs
#33. Why do I go outside at one a.m.
and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?
Gail White
#34. Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#35. We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
Mother Teresa
#36. According to Roy Medvedev, Stalin's victims numbered forty million. Solzhenitsyn says the number is far greater - perhaps sixty million. The debate continues even now.
David Remnick
#37. Remain stuck inside your current business model, and your business's days are numbered. Make a brand ideal your North Star, and the sky's the limit.
Jim Stengel
#38. You gave me a forever within numbered days.
John Green
#39. In this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.
Lois Wyse
#40. 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.
Vitruvius
#41. I just looked at the calendar and realized- my days are numbered
Johnny Moscato
#42. All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.
Marianne Williamson
#43. When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
Tony Benn
#44. There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days
Iron & Wine
#45. Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.
Samuel Johnson
#46. Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
Plutarch
#47. Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.
Gerry Beckley
#48. From the moment we take our first breaths, our days are numbered, so how we live matters. The decisions we make - the important ones and, yes, the mundane ones too - they all matter. Everyday decisions add up to form the life we live and the legacy we leave behind.
Sally Clarkson
#49. Child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.
Desmond Tutu
#50. When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
Ivor Novello
#51. Our days are numbered in the book of days, Most High," Gorgon murmurs as the garden comes once more into view. "That is what gives them sweetness and purpose.
Libba Bray
#52. If you face just one opponent, and you doubt yourself, you're out-numbered
Dan Millman
#53. When we finish up with this planet the insects will take over. You may not think it, seeing all this fair land, but the days of the human race are numbered. The insects are waiting their turn.
Larry McMurtry
#54. One observer estimated that in 1901 Texas alone had eight hundred million prairie dogs.4 Jack rabbits were nearly as numerous. Antelope and deer numbered in the millions, as did the wolves and coyotes, and there were thousands of elk, bear, and other game.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#55. The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.
Lemony Snicket
#56. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.
Thomas S. Monson
#57. Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Marcus Aurelius
#58. Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.
Margery Allingham
#59. Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
Vernor Vinge
#60. 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
#61. The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
Os Guinness
#62. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." - Hazel
John Green
#64. Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
Bill Vaughan
#65. Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
E. B. Farnum
#66. People are looking for software development that actually does something useful ... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.
Kent Beck
#67. I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.
Steven Wright
#68. although the dominion of darkness is very real, its days are numbered because the Alpha and the Omega - the "Guardian King" - is real too, and he is victorious.
Craig Parshall
#69. Korum couldn't understand [Connor's] placidity. If Mia had blushed at the touch of another man, that man's lifespan would've been numbered in minutes.
Anna Zaires
#70. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
Stephen King
#71. It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number of rebels, a rebellious spirit, then our days on the earth are numbered. We have to change our consciousness, create more meditative energy in the world, create more lovingness.
Rajneesh
#73. Here is a list of terrible things,
The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before,
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.
Clive Barker
#74. Lists make magic, the rhythm of itemised words: you do not list ten techniques, numbered and chantable, in austere prose appropriate for some early-millennium rebooted Book of Thoth, and not know that you have written an incantation.
China Mieville
#75. Every step of the way we walk the line
Your days are numbered, so are mine
Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape
We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape
Bob Dylan
#76. You've missed it again, you've gone wrong again, you thought you had time, you thought that even someone whose days were numbered would wait for you. That's the kind of person you are, dozing while more opportunities pass you by (...)
Zeruya Shalev
#78. Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee. And yet are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his feelings, and the beatings of his heart.
Augustine Of Hippo
#79. When it finally came up over the battered Baal's Heart, the sun shone down on a sadly diminished crew. Three men were dead from injuries sustained aboard, and another five were missing. Tom was numbered among those presumed swept overboard by the fury of the storm.
Bey Deckard
#80. I find my way back to the door, leaving him to his new day so he may think of Rose, whose sunrises are numbered.
Lauren DeStefano
#81. 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
#82. When George Washington directed federal troops to exterminate the Onondaga during the Revolutionary War, a nation that had numbered in the tens of thousands was reduced to a few hundred people in a matter of one year.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#85. I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
Iain M. Banks
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. You gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little infinity
John Green
#89. The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
Peter Drucker
#90. I hear, "Yes,
Let us more education invest!"
Whilst destitute,
Outside their gates doth rest,
Women, children, and men,
Poor and a hungered!
Odd that colleges fill,
Yet mercy is numbered.
Kari L. Greenaway
#91. Like all other modern people, the English are in process of being numbered, labelled, conscripted, 'coordinated'. But the pull of their impulses is in the other direction,
George Orwell
#92. The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
Tom Stoppard
#93. Be certain that Yasser Arafat's final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.
Mohammed Dahlan
#94. Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you".
O. Henry
#95. 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
#96. June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers;
In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,
In vain would fond winds fan her back to life,
Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.
Lucy Larcom
#97. 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
#98. As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.
Andrew R. George
#99. The days are numbered for those bums over in England."
German Tank commander
Leo McKinstry
#100. Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.
Israelmore Ayivor
