
Top 100 Can't Count On You Quotes
#1. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.
Jonathan Tropper
#2. I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them.
Taya Kyle
#3. Count this as a mere taste, sweetheart, of all the pleasure I can give you. Marry me and let me show you more. Be mine, and I'll take you on a journey the likes of which you've ever only imagined. ~~ Adam to Mallory
Tracy Anne Warren
#4. Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.
Larry Winget
#5. Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.
Stephen Collins
#6. When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.
Dave Eggers
#7. I can't tell you. I can't tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I've lost you, I've lost everything.
Tabitha Suzuma
#8. While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.
John Wooden
#9. You can always count on God to do nothing.
Marty Rubin
#10. I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
Sarah McLachlan
#11. That kind of love is always changing, you can never plant your feet on it. Trust me there will be others. But those kinds of affairs-you can't ever count on them like blood.
Anna Godbersen
#12. In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.
William C. Richardson
#13. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?
Alicia Kobishop
#14. Definition of good neighbor: someone to be trusted; a courteous, friendly source of help when help is needed; someone you can count on; someone who cares.
Edward B. Rust Jr.
#15. The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
Ann Patchett
#16. Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.
Alan Huffman
#17. It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
Sheryl Crow
#18. Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other.
James S.A. Corey
#19. Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.
Tom Clancy
#20. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.
Oswald Chambers
#21. I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word 'women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia."
"Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.
Patricia Briggs
#22. You can't count on success; you can only leave open the possibility for it, and be ready to jump on and take the ride when it comes for you.
Austin Kleon
#23. You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.
Winston S. Churchill
#24. I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
Kate Reardon
#25. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
Chuck Palahniuk
#26. The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
Sean Penn
#27. Was i on five or six? "Peter! You made me lose my count again!" "I have that effect on women." I roll my eyyes at him and he grins back at me, but before he can say anything else, I yell," Kitty! Get down here!
Jenny Han
#28. I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on one hand the guys I've been with. It was really challenging, but I never gave it up too soon, if you know what I mean.
Danica McKellar
#29. I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.
Roddy Doyle
#30. ... If I wanna shit I am going to buy it from the shop... what I need now is a friend on which I can count on... you know the drill.
Deyth Banger
#31. Breathe in for 4 counts (you can count faster or slower depending on comfort), hold that breath for 7, and then release for 8.
Robert Duff
#32. You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.
Dan Chaon
#33. Thanks, Gav. I can always count on you to say things that help me in no way whatsoever.
M. Leighton
#34. People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!
Linda Masemore Pirrung
#35. 82/ The truth is that writing is simply not reliable. You can't count on it to be there just because you've made time for it. In fact, making space might make it disappear.
Kim Addonizio
#36. "I'm in love with you. I love you so much it eclipses everything else around me. You're the star I can never reach. I can wish and dream, stretch and strain, but you're always just out of my grasp. I need something I can hold, I can count on. I need something tangible.
Genna Rulon
#37. This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore
Brian Andreas
#38. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. You can bet I'm going to make this day count! Will you?
Steve Maraboli
#39. Bureaucracies excel at performing tasks that must be done consistently whether the people assigned to them are brilliant performers or bumbling fools. You can't always count on having Albert Einstein in the patent office, so you design its procedures to work even if you hire Mr. Bean by mistake.
Charles Stross
#40. I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.
Benjamin Bratt
#41. The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#42. Jason, as much as I'd like to believe that we're friends, I know I can't count on you.
Amber Dermont
#43. But there is one constant, one thing you can always count on: that not only does love come first, but at the end, it is the only thing that remains.
Emily Giffin
#44. I think it's such open game to make fun of myself. First of all, as a white rapper you have to have an angle and not try to be ghetto or anything. You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it.
Simon Rex
#45. Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.
Susan Orlean
#46. Can't count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.
J.D. Jordan
#47. I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president.
George W. Bush
#48. I'll be home for Christmas. You can count on me.
Bing Crosby
#49. You like to think you can count on a person. To hang around
Joyce Maynard
#50. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov
#51. I need someone I can count on. Until recently, you were the most reliable of us all. I sincerely hope that hasn't changed for good." "Don't go there, brother."
"Over some male not worthy of you."
He went there!
G.A. Aiken
#52. No matter where I am, especially when I'm on tour around the country, Caesar salad is my standby. In a random city and eating in random to-go restaurants, you're kind of scared about trying things, but you can always count on a Caesar salad.
Sasha Cohen
#53. December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.
Lois Duncan
#54. I've always loved working on series. The crew feels like a family and it's nice to have a regular gig that you can count on.
Kay Panabaker
#55. Being strong is important. But knowing who you can count on is equally important
Niki Burnham
#56. There is a calming aura at the ocean's edge, despite the frothing foam, crashing waves and roaring white noise. The ocean looks the same on your good days and your bad days. Nice to know on the worse of days that there are few things you can utterly count on. P. 107
Susan Meissner
#57. Take a thousand soldiers. Four hundred will stand in a fight but do nothing. Two hundred will run given the chance. Another hundred will get confused. That leaves three hundred you can count on. Your task in commanding that thousand is all down to knowing where to put that three hundred.
Steven Erikson
#58. Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
Barbara Sher
#59. In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
James Surowiecki
#60. It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.
Anthony Liccione
#61. Oh, also, if Mr. Ortega catches me writing you this letter, I am committed to shoving it in my mouth and swallowing. I hope I can count on the same commitment from you.
Kasie West
#62. Whether it's golf or writing, you have friends, and then you have 'friends' friends. Friends who are like family. I can count my close friends on two hands, which is good, I think. That's a lot. Some are at home in Spain, others are elsewhere, and some are in golf.
Sergio Garcia
#63. Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
Margaret Bourke-White
#64. Maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous.
Toni Morrison
#65. Family does not mean people with the same last name or the same DNA. It means people who care about you, who you trust, who you care about
people you can count on.
Kris Radish
#66. Mags, I'm in this forever. You are my future, my always ... If there is one thing in this messed up universe you can count on, it's my love for you. It's constant. It's endless. And it's never going anywhere.
A Meredith Walters
#67. Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You'll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or keeping up to date on the Kardashians.
Dan Alatorre
#68. From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are."
Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all they'd been through. Maybe because of it. "I'll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.
Lara Adrian
#69. It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on ...
Ellen Hopkins
#70. Look, you think I like history because I'm fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you're wrong. I like it because it's the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They're anyone's guess.
Rebecca Serle
#71. In these fast and fickle times, it's nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys' "California Girls"; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
Sarah Vowell
#72. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
#73. I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.
Russell Peters
#74. Invite Douglas Venture," he said. "He's kind of a friend, but he can't hold his liquor. You can count on him making a disturbance at the after-party.
Brandon Sanderson
#75. I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.
Dave Chappelle
#76. You can't count on friends. They will always let you down.
Rick Riordan
#77. You can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now."
no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. "
He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.
Caprice Crane
#78. I mean really if you can't count on your best friend to go to jail with you, what good are they?
Janice Hardy
#79. Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.
Alex Irvine
#80. The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.
Jim Butcher
#81. Go down on you? Are you kidding me? In two years, you can count the times on one hand?" Lucas looked appalled. "He had the sweetest pussy in all creation right next to him all that time and he didn't spend his days and nights buried in it?
Melanie Harlow
#82. You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.
Stephan Pastis
#83. You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.
Ronda Rousey
#84. There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.
Emily Giffin
#85. Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.
Alan Robinson
#86. Sometimes trust isn't something you can just choose to do even if it makes sense. All my life the only reliable person, the one I could count on, the one who hasn't abandoned me, is me.
Sara Zarr
#87. People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.
David E. Kelley
#88. I can count on that? That you'll get out of here? Because you look an awful lot like you're about to go cowboy again on me, Iceman. More than you already have, and I can't accept that.
Lisa Marie Rice
#89. You can't count on anyone else for your happiness, nor blame them for your misery.
Eden Carson
#90. Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.
Calvin Trillin
#91. What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you.
Dale Maharidge
#92. You can count on me. I won't fail." "Not failing would be good.
Rick Riordan
#93. I don't know who this quote is by but the friends that you can call at 3am are the ones that really count and I am lucky that I have a few of those. So, I just drew on that and the people who believe in me as they lift you up. It's really important to have people around you that do that.
Emma Watson
#94. I believe that the things we put numbers on are not necessarily the things that count the most. you can't measure the stuff that makes us human.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#95. One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored.
Jim Butcher
#96. We been in this house forty year," he said. "Bought it back in nineteen and forty-three for four thousand dollar. Bet you never heard of a house that cheap. Now it's worth one hunnert and fifteen thousand. Just the lot we're settin' on. That don't even count the house. They can knock
Sue Grafton
#97. Our whole role in life is to give you something you didn't know you wanted. And then once you get it, you can't imagine your life without it. And you can count on Apple doing that.
Tim Cook
#98. I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.
Sigourney Weaver
#99. Even today you don't know what opportunities I will be bringing your way. But do know you can count on Me for the words - words that will flow out of an obedient heart. There's no need to worry about the right words as long as your heart is aligned with Mine. You obey, and I
Judy Gordon Morrow
#100. I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.
Ron Livingston
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