Count On 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. Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.

Bill Maher

#3. We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

Knute Rockne

#4. You couldn't count on Providence for anything ever.

Ann Brashares

#5. Now suppose that at the end of the page you get another instruction: count all the commas in the next page. This will be harder, because you will have to overcome the newly acquired tendency to focus attention on the letter f.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. The beauty of the infantry is its ability to truly teach tolerance. At the lowest level, when it is simply a matter of survival to count on everyone around you, regardless of religion or skin color, the only logical option is to ignore the differences.

Adam Fenner

#7. If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and an endless barrage of ridicule and insults. It feels like the only thing I can count on right now. I don't want something dumb like respect and affection getting in the way.

Michael Buckley

#8. I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them.

Taya Kyle

#9. 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

#10. I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

Kevin Costner

#11. Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on.

Bo Burnham

#12. The sad reality is, it's not just the people I go to school with that are doing it. It's their parents too. Their noses are all turned up at me, like because of my diagnosis; I'm an alien to them. I'm not like their son or daughter so that means I'm not worthy of respect.

Melyssa Winchester

#13. The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

Susane Colasanti

#14. I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?

Andy Cohen

#15. It's because we help out when they're in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.
-Shikamaru Nara

Masashi Kishimoto

#16. Believes in God the way he believes in politicians-he knows He exists but doesn't count on Him for anything.

Russell Banks

#17. We can always count on people to hate and to fear.To harm one another and to be harmed.To kill and be killed.It is what opens the gate.

Simon Holt

#18. In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

Michael Shnayerson

#19. Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

Dalton Trumbo

#20. An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

Pope John Paul II

#21. 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

#22. I could always count on him letting me down.

Samantha Schutz

#23. 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

#24. We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it.

Tim Wright

#25. 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

#26. What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

Terry Brooks

#27. 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

#28. You have to live your life and not count on things being there tomorrow or the next day.

Tere Michaels

#29. We've always known that Democrats are anti-war, and we've always known that we can't really count on them when it comes to national defense. But we have finally seen with whom they will go to war: the American people who disagree with them.

Rush Limbaugh

#30. 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

#31. We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.

Robert Pozen

#32. You can always count on God to do nothing.

Marty Rubin

#33. I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

Beth Ditto

#34. 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

#35. I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on ... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal

Orhan Pamuk

#36. Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

Gloria Gaither

#37. The strength of our relationships is measured by how much people can count on us.

Michael Hyatt

#38. 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

#39. I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary But don't count on it.

J. Richard Hackman

#40. Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

Count Basie

#41. 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

#42. Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.

Alex Trebek

#43. 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

#44. Stupid people. Their faces are gonna get stuck that way.

Melyssa Winchester

#45. When I'm doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: 'Tell about the guy who died on your show!'

Dick Cavett

#46. Under the burning sun on the street I began to feel the weight of my ninety years, and to count minute by minute the minutes of the nights I had left before I died.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#47. Madly is the way I love you. Forever is how long it will be.

Melyssa Winchester

#48. Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.

Colin Powell

#49. You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.

Bob Dylan

#50. I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Gustav Mahler

#51. How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

Antony Gormley

#52. It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

Gina Greenlee

#53. 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.

#54. I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.

Lynsey Addario

#55. I'd once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture ... you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!

Tom Conrad

#56. You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Jane Seymour

#57. The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

Ann Patchett

#58. Vacations in my family are rare events squeezed between races. I can count them on one hand, and even those amount to only a few hours each. Shopping in Los Angeles. Sinking my toes into snow white sand in Florida. They are tiny slips of memory strung around horses.

Mara Dabrishus

#59. We cannot count on strategic warning. We might get it, and we might be able to take useful preparatory actions that would be impossible without it. We certainly ought to plan to exploit such a possibility should it occur.

Anonymous

#60. I would like to thank my arms, for always being by my side. My legs, for always supporting me, and my fingers, because I can always count on them.

Anonymous

#61. A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure,

Margaret Thatcher

#62. Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.

Aaron Swartz

#63. If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

Kaley Cuoco

#64. And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the "perchance." And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.

Alan Jacobs

#65. Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

Elton John

#66. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

Warren Buffett

#67. I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

Ben Affleck

#68. I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.

Shahrukh Khan

#69. My wife - an ex journalist and current TV producer - has a rule that she taught me at the start of B3ta. Does the item make you laugh, or does it make you go, 'Oh my God?' If you score on either count, then you have something that is worth sharing.

Rob Manuel

#70. Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.

Sathya Sai Baba

#71. Count only on those who believe in your dreams, because our greatness comes in our darkest moments

Joshua Okello

#72. Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.

Alan Huffman

#73. Cuz I can count on one hand the men who've loved me, not in the Biblical sense - I don't have enough digits for that - but who have truly loved me.

Shannon Celebi

#74. I didn't seem to exist, except in relation to her. I would watch her sleep across the roomfromme, one long shadow linking our beds, and I would count the ways. Poison, sprinkled on her cereal. A wicked undertow off the beach. Lightning striking.

Anonymous

#75. 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

#76. There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

Rex Tillerson

#77. A life's record with God in the details can be a spiritual feast for our souls. When we count our blessings on paper, our gratitude soars. It is all so evident.

Elaine A. Cannon

#78. Count on, rest not, for hope is dead.

William Morris

#79. I cannot count the days on which I found myself driving abruptly blinded by tears.

Joan Didion

#80. My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.

Nelly

#81. We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

Gene Ween

#82. If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on.

Fred DeLuca

#83. Smokers of the world unite!
On t'count o' three, all light up, right?
1-2-3...
You've all been cowed.
I've changed the law and it's allowed.
Try again then. 1-2-3:
all light your fags now after me.

Tony Harrison

#84. Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

John B. Larson

#85. Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life.

Isabel Allende

#86. 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

#87. I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

Susan B. Anthony

#88. You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'

Martin McGuinness

#89. Parting is such sweet sorrow, according to the bards. I wouldn't know, myself. I never parted anyone." He mimed ripping someone in half, then got an odd expression on his face. "Well. Just the one time, really. Doesn't count.

Rachel Caine

#90. Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.

Tom Clancy

#91. When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

Jonathan Demme

#92. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

Oswald Chambers

#93. Many of our patients are barely aware of their breath, so learning to focus on the in and out breath, to notice whether the breath was fast or slow, and to count breaths in some poses can be a significant accomplishment.13

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#94. The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.

Charles R. Swindoll

#95. I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special shot when I put him down with the famous Horsley Muckspreader right hand ... an unstoppable force. Incredibly, he got up and took the count and the ref waved us to continue.

Stephen Richards

#96. - Nothing. Although they are flowers you did not count on, they are still part of the garden.

Paulo Coelho

#97. 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

#98. Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

Lorrie Moore

#99. I guess that's what happens when you've lost everything that had any real meaning. You become numb to what's left.

Melyssa Winchester

#100. Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character.

Jim George