Top 75 Can Be Counted Quotes
#1. What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.
Albert Einstein
#2. Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle.
#3. The fact that alienated people can be counted on to vent their spleen in ineffectual directions - by fighting among themselves - relieves the government of the need to deal fundamentally with the conditions which cause their frustrations,
Chris Hedges
#4. Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
Gustave Flaubert
#5. They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and who can be counted on never to make a blunder.
W. Somerset Maugham
#6. Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
Benjamin Graham
#7. Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.
George Carlin
#8. Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.
Timothy Noah
#9. Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.
Boyd Rice
#10. Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!
Pitirim Sorokin
#12. Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.
Ann Voskamp
#13. Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein
#14. Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel.
Noah Gordon
#15. Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#16. Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
Jeffrey Sachs
#17. If nothing else, Malus Darkblade, you can be counted on to react to adversity with as much violence as physically possible- Tzarkan
Dan Abnett
#18. Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Simone Weil
#19. The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
Jack Markell
#20. At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.
Gilbert Highet
#21. I've found that people say what suits them in the moment. Doesn't always mean it can be counted on
Mia Sheridan
#22. Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
F. Lee Bailey
#23. Because our love is more than something I can wear. Our time is far greater than what can be counted by two hands and some numbers. Because, even without it, I still have you.
Elise Kova
#24. Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.
Anita Desai
#25. In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
Mignon McLaughlin
#27. Becoming the type of person you want to become - someone who lives by a stronger standard, someone who believes in themselves, someone who can be counted on by the people that matter to them - is about the daily process you follow and not the ultimate product you achieve.
James Clear
#28. I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.
Jerri Nielsen
#29. Not everything that counts can be counted. You can count sales. You can count fans and followers. You can count pins and tweets. But you can't count passion. You can't count commitment. You can't count engagement. You can't count relationships.
John Kremer
#30. Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?
Jeff Goodell
#31. Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
Alain De Botton
#32. Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Harry Golombek
#33. To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be counted on your fingers.
Francoise Gilot
#34. The church needs lifers and those who can be counted on for the long haul.
Kevin DeYoung
#35. When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we just go into the kitchen and get more chips.
Mike Milligan
#36. Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
Joshua Becker
#37. Finance people should remember Albert Einstein's wise words: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Bjarte Bogsnes
#38. The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand. But possibly this is how I am expected to react. If I have an egg, what more can I want? In
Margaret Atwood
#39. The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.
William B. Ogden
#40. The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last - that they don't disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.
Pema Chodron
#41. How can you make sense of a place if it won't hold still to be counted and even its colors aren't fast? Their job was to imagine, never to know. The truth, as generations of directors had reminded their charges, would only get in the way.
Steve Himmer
#42. It's a poem, for crying out loud! The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times. But you know they're expecting one specific, so-called correct answer, and any other thoughtful response will be counted off. It's wrong to dissect poetry like this!
Wendy Higgins
#43. Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.
Steve Diggle
#44. Every game has its Jacks,' she said, the sadness of it pulling down the elation of sudden understanding. 'The thing that acts as a wild card. It can't be counted on or predicted. A weapon, even. But he's in other places, too, isn't he? And do you know what else a Jack is, Puck? ... I do.
Ruth Frances Long
#45. American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#46. In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
William Bennett
#47. The only thing one can count on is that no one else can truly be counted on. Alice
Kate Morton
#48. I hope I can always be counted on to get a hit or get a guy in-to be an even keel in the lineup.
Morgan Ensberg
#49. America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.
Winston Churchill
#50. If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#51. Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
Lena Horne
#52. Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.
Mason Cooley
#53. I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.
Haruki Murakami
#54. Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it
Herman Cain
#55. It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipment
To be counted and signed for.
On occasion some of us break down,
And those parts which can't be salvaged
Are replaced with other GI parts, that's all.
Rolando Hinojosa
#56. Of course she cheated. Don't be silly. Snow White spent half her growing years shuffling cards for no one. She can cut false and she can cut true, but she wasn't going to lose when it counted.
Catherynne M Valente
#57. I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.
Joseph Monninger
#58. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
Adrienne Rich
#59. The next time someone chides you for using your intuition, inform them that you are just checking in with the 96 percent of the universe that can't be counted up, analyzed or measured.
Catherine Carrigan
#60. I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
Ted Cruz
#61. I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count.
Newt Gingrich
#62. The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Georg Buchner
#63. Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.
Tennessee Williams
#65. What can you mean? It may be of no moment to you; you have sisters and don't care for a cousin; but I had nobody; and now three relations, - or two, if you don't choose to be counted, - are born into my world full-grown. I say again, I am glad!
Charlotte Bronte
#66. I'm like a teenage boy - I eat like one and know as much cooking as one. Neither do I bake, and I can always be counted on to bring the wine to a pot luck.
Julia London
#67. Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled, just as the dead can never be counted.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#68. All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate
them.
Baruch Spinoza
#69. To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
Ezra Taft Benson
#70. if college graduates can no longer be counted on to lead reasoned debate and discussion in American life, and to know the difference between knowledge and feeling, then we're indeed in the kind of deep trouble no expert can fix.
Thomas M. Nichols
#71. Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
Ann Voskamp
#72. The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.
Zig Ziglar
#73. Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#74. You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind.
Saint Basil
#75. There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.
Damon Galgut
