Top 100 Count Quotes
#1. I worry about what I can control, and that's come out and improve every day, enjoy the process, count your blessings, and work extremely hard.
Tim Tebow
#2. Was a dead Vietnamese in civilian clothes part of the enemy forces? Officers started to make up numbers to give their superiors the body count they wanted.
Michael Barone
#3. We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?
Louise Penny
#4. I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
Ingrid Bergman
#6. Because if there's one thing in life I can count on, it's that eventually, no matter how freaking nice that rug is under your feet, someone always pulls it out from under you eventually.
J.A. Huss
#7. When a thing is told to you and you can't remember it happening it doesn't count somehow. It is as though it had nothing to do with you. Remembering, that's what counts.
Brian Moore
#8. Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.
Kit Bond
#10. The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
Scott Turow
#11. Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
Colin Powell
#12. How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.
Amelia Earhart
#13. When examples of openness of thought come from a single ruler, they count for nothing, except to show that he alone can afford to be like that because he is king.
Italo Calvino
#14. If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
Tim Vine
#15. No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
#16. In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.
Ovid
#17. Whether we have a leak or roof that needs to be replaced, we can always count on Premier Roofing Services to get the job done the right way.
Matt Keough
#18. Her head swung around as if it had become detached from her spine. "My God! Your brother is HOT!"
Calista shook her head and looped an arm around the woman's waist. "Yes, he is. I'll be sure to tell my family you thought so."
"It doesn't count when they're drunk. House rule," I complained.
Ashlan Thomas
#19. Be the person others can count on to get things done
Larry Winget
#20. It's truth to say in all save solitude - and in some sad cases, even then - you can always count on the company of fools.
Jay Kristoff
#21. Well, if you count my phone as an access point (which I do), I'm pretty much constantly online unless I'm at an event or practice or something.
Chris Kluwe
#22. This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.
Cathy Guisewite
#23. One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count.
Daisaku Ikeda
#24. If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.
William Shakespeare
#25. But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli
#26. Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.
Zig Ziglar
#27. Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious, annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#28. Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.
George Ade
#29. He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.
Erin Morgenstern
#30. Each and every words count.
Each and every thoughts count.
Santosh Kalwar
#31. I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
Robin Trower
#32. I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
Greg Akcelrod
#35. She's a badass motherf**keress. She'd kick your ass soon as look at you. You've clapped your eyes on The Law. Count yourself lucky, sucker. Now, what'll it f**kin'be?
Kristen Ashley
#36. That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count.
Terry Pratchett
#37. I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies. Just revisiting and rewriting. For me, momentum is far more important than inspiration.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#38. Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far
Steve Aylett
#39. Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.
Charlotte Ross
#40. Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of your friends.
Bram Stoker
#41. Think before you speak. Take a deep breath, people suggested. Count to ten. Count sheep. Oh, wait, that was for sleeping. Even in her own head, her tongue ran ahead of her brain. It propelled her into all sorts of absurd situations. Elopements. Scandals. This.
Lauren Willig
#42. Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.
Hosea Ballou
#43. Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc ... ) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#44. This book came to me for review, but when I observed its count of pages I quietly dropped it behind the piano.
H.L. Mencken
#45. To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults
Sunday Adelaja
#46. Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
B.B. King
#47. I laugh with him. I imagine mixing poison into his tea, then watching his face turn purple and anguished; I picture myself leaning over him, looking on patiently, with my chin resting in my hands, admiring his dying, writhing body as I count out the minutes.
Marie Lu
#48. INFINITY is an illusion, we are just too lazy to count...
Andy Flynn
#49. God is always better than he has to be. You can count on that.
Beth Moore
#50. All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.
Nora Roberts
#51. I can't quite count the ways in which we hurt one another. It was the means by which we tried to help one another - me, turning her into a patient, her, turning me into a dull authority - which were as bad as, if not worse, than our actual abuses.
Hanif Kureishi
#52. No need to queue up; step forward and count yourself in.
Gina Greenlee
#53. The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.
Rod Serling
#54. Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.
Chris Gardner
#55. It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.
Desmond Tutu
#56. Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#57. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.
Mike Tyson
#58. I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!
Bobby Thomson
#59. Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of both lots for him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#60. Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.
Rick Riordan
#61. Arriving late, thought the Count with a sigh. What a delicacy of youth. Then
Amor Towles
#62. Who's that? That's the King. Who's he? The Duke. Who's she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm ... how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.
Jordan Sonnenblick
#63. Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
Mario Teguh
#64. What takes the power out of that great, intimidating consciousness of external evaluation and steadies our hearts once again is the truth that the opinions of man do not count before God.
Anna Blanc
#65. There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.
Rick Warren
#66. When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.
Kenneth Eade
#67. I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this. I hate my life. And I hate how I can't count on anyone to be completely there when I need them, exactly the way I need them to be.
Susane Colasanti
#68. Budgets may count Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs), but great teams count on people.
Johanna Rothman
#69. I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#70. God's care for humanity was so great that he sent his unique Son among us, so that those who count on him might not lead a futile and failing existence, but have the undying life of God Himself. JOHN 3:16
Dallas Willard
#71. This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
Charles Olson
#72. Good Lord, woman. Didn't anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don't stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#73. I know every arrow must count, and they do. In the eerie light,
Suzanne Collins
#74. I'd learned early on that it was easier not to count on anyone.
Nina Lane
#75. You could always count on serendipity to keep things interesting.
Emory Sharplin
#76. What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.
Gloria Steinem
#77. One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.
St. Vincent
#78. God has a plan for the future and, because He is sovereign, it will come to pass. You can count on it!
Jim George
#79. It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
Randy Jackson
#80. I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.
Christopher Walken
#81. I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.
John Wayne
#82. Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite.
Steven Levenkron
#83. I am selfish - you have already said so - and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself.
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle Locations 11677-11678).
Alexandre Dumas
#84. By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the humanity of the soldiers of Nippon. There may be a few I've missed, but not many.
Stephen Hunter
#85. Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.
Barry Magee
#86. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
Mae West
#87. A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.
Dalai Lama
#88. Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.
Rue McClanahan
#89. Younger people could dredge up an impressive number of dark words to express their pain. As writers got older and older, their negative emotion vocabulary diminished and their positive emotion word count skyrocketed. As
James W. Pennebaker
#90. To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
#91. Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter.
Ruth Downie
#92. 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
#93. I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back.
Rajon Rondo
#94. When I needed an e-book formatted fast and formatted perfectly, Polgarus Studio came through for me. My expectations were exceeded. It's a relief knowing I can count on a hand-formatted e-book that will work on every device. Highly recommended!
Hugh Howey
#95. A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.
Benjamin Disraeli
#96. I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.
Anthony Weiner
#97. Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30 ...
Albina Fabiani
#98. 'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
Kate Christensen
#99. They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
James M. Barrie
#100. Don't ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don't matter or that your voice doesn't count. Don't ever believe that you can't make a difference. You have.
Barack Obama
