Numbered Quotes

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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
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
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? — Woody Allen
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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… — Grover Cleveland
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by… — John Stuart Mill
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes,… — Henry Fielding
His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,… — George Wilson
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… — Plutarch
This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today,… — Thomas S. Monson
What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men… — Saint Augustine
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own. — Patrick McGoohan
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells
And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted… — Nicholas Wolterstorff
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world… — Alistair Cooke
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… — Alva Myrdal
I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered. — Iain Banks
To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the… — Margaret Thatcher

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