Moments That Count Quotes

#1. Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

Norbert Wiener

#2. Life is slow and subtle. Love takes time to show and grow. In life, little acts count. In fact, that is what a life is all about, a long parade of moments deceptively inconsequential.

John F. Kavanaugh

#3. Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing and multiplying in the body, but when this process continues in disregard of the total organism, cells proliferate and we have disease.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. But almost moments don't count, and it all comes down to the choices I could've made but didn't.

Jessi Kirby

#5. Jill had three basic statements about life,
1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.
2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
3. No one ever said that life was fair.

Nicholas Sparks

#6. I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

Wilhelm Keitel

#7. They talk o' rich folks bein' stuck up and genteel, but for iron-clad pride o' respectability there's nowt like poor chapel folk. Why, 'tis as cold as the wind on Greenhow Hill
aye, and colder, too, for 'twill never change.

Rudyard Kipling

#8. Live every day like it's your last. Treasure the moments you have, and make sure you make them count.

Nicole Reed

#9. To ache from the knowledge that I may never hold you again - to count the moments, like grains of sand, while we were parted only to escape the sky and find that you still only know me as a boy from school ...

Amy A. Bartol

#10. Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to trigger deep emotion. There is no longer any way of being poor in any interesting way in major cities like Manhattan

Chris Kraus

#11. In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself.

Paul Scott

#12. If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

Chris Hadfield

#13. I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Nick Cave

#14. As we sail in the voyage of life,
the love and joy we shared count more than anything else.
Let them feel the rhythm of our heart,
share them the music of our soul,
for a meaningful, fulfilling moments of today,
for a hopeful, promising and joyful tomorrow

Angelica Hopes

#15. Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers.

Thomm Quackenbush

#16. Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment. (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)

Mike Van Hoozer

#17. There was nothing to do but keep moving forward and make the moments count.

Suzanne Collins

#18. The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations.

Auliq Ice

#19. If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

Rachel Maddow

#20. Is it true that we can count the moments in which something really happens in our lives? Do we notice it right away, or only in hindsight?

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#21. Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

Emil Cioran

#22. Accept love when it is offered, Violet. Return love and not suspicion. Then you'll receive more. - Loyalty Tang

Amy Tan

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

Joshua Okello

#24. But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Ernest Gaines

#25. Close but no cigar

Lawrence Sanders

#26. To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#27. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

Jonathan Ive

#28. In moments such as these, it's the minor seconds that count. Seconds that can make or break you. Seconds that can save your life.

Rebecca A. Rogers

#29. 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

#30. 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