Quotes About Counting Down

#1. There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#2. If one of the luminaries should condescend, then the homely lover, plain of face, knows damn well to choose some modest number, and then begin counting down the days of love. Beauty seeks after beauty, like goes with like; forever this was the way of things, world without end.

Kai Ashante Wilson

#3. Slowly counting down the days
Till I finally know your name
The way your hand feels round my waist
The way you laugh, the way your kisses taste
I missed you but I haven't met you
Oh but I want to
How I do

The Civil Wars

#4. They didn't tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. What goes up will surely fall and I'm counting down the time

Linkin Park

#6. I'll be counting down the days."
"Wow, way to make me feel crazy." He says, leaning in and kissing my neck.
"How?"
"Because I'll be counting down the seconds.

Skyla Madi

#7. If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting. You will never be as young as you are right now.

Neil Pasricha

#9. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.

Don DeLillo

#10. I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town
I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes
And they all fall down.
- Sleeping to Dream

Jason Mraz

#11. Mel," I began, staring down, "there's something I have to tell you."
"I'm listening, babe."
"I kissed Henry when we were camping."
Well, it was a six-hour kiss, but who's counting?

Ophelia London

#12. Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

Gray Davis

#13. I was busy counting the cut of his abs and had just reached six when he pulled it down over my head and then tugged my arms into the sleeves.

Rochelle Paige

#14. Ssh, I'm counting." Travis watched me for a moment, and then leaned down to kiss my neck. "I can't concentrate while you're doing tha ...

Jamie McGuire

#15. To this day I don't know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.

David Wong

#16. Counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down.

Mitch Albom

#17. I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Evel Knievel

#18. I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#19. Even now dread still struck her down sometimes if she found herself counting on things being fine

Barbara Kingsolver

#20. They would reach their destinations sooner and merely by sitting down. I would reach my destination later and merely by counting my steps, but someday I would sit down and console myself that we both had reached our destinations, and this was all that mattered.

Legson Kayira

#21. Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.

Immanuel Kant

#22. I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.

Lynn Schusterman

#23. How long that part of the cycle had lasted he did not now know; nothing had happened, generally, so it had been measureless.

Philip K. Dick

#24. Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#25. If you drive down there," I said, "he'll just escape the other way. That's what he's counting on. You have to walk down there, point your gun at him, and yell at him in that charming way you have.

Jennifer Echols

#26. I had no idea what was in store for me this season. This is the first time I've been a part of a true team sport, and there's someone else counting on you. You can't let that person down, and that's what drives me.

Lauryn Williams

#27. I made a note to talk to him about soft drinks. Those beverages are not healthy.

from counting by 7s (not listed in drop-down)

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#28. no matter how hard I try to stamp it down, part of me is picturing Sophie's guy cracking the password and coming up with both hands full of pics of Aislinn riding Cueball Lanigan, with Breslin counting cash in the background. "Let

Tana French

#29. Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Theodor Adorno

#30. Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Jean Giraudoux

#31. There's no telling how far down it goes," the captain says, the left side of his mustache twitching like the tail of a rat. "Fall into that unknowable abyss, and you'll be counting the days before you reach bottom.

Neal Shusterman

#32. The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

Michelle Singletary

#33. I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

Frank Stella

#34. Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.

Heather Brewer

#35. Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky
I wonder if
Someone in the heavens looking back down on me
I'll never know
So much space to believe

Dave Matthews

#36. Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#37. Nw a kind of no-man's-land occupied by a neo-Elizabethan hugger-mugger of racketeers, drug dealers, gangsters and abortionists, the shark-toothed area seemed only a rowdier version of the city all around - a freewheeling, free-spending center of free enterprise.

Pico Iyer

#38. He'd done it again. Screwed up in a social situation and dragged the whole team down with hm. His new team. The ones who were counting on him to be a leader on and off the field. He'd led them, all right, almost into a brawl.

Jami Davenport