Top 100 Quotes About Counted
#1. The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.
Alexandra Fuller
#2. He had almost fallen asleep on top of Elin last night, and counted it among the week's few small achievements that he had finished the job, at least.
Robert Galbraith
#3. My scary strange English shall only be counted as my English problem.
M.F. Moonzajer
#4. I had less success in the courtyard. There only love and boyfriends counted.
Elena Ferrante
#5. There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?
Jodi Picoult
#6. God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.
Tess Gerritsen
#7. Earl and I actually didn't have much in common with each other, either, but we were the only ten-year-olds in Pittsburgh who liked Aguirre, the Wrath of God, and that counted for something. It actually counted for a lot.
Jesse Andrews
#8. Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
James Rowland Angell
#9. My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
Robert A. Heinlein
#10. have realized about myself that I'm very motivated by people counting on me," he answered. "I like to be counted on."14
Brad Stone
#11. At least some of the items in a Homeric list of the aretai would clearly not be counted by most of us nowadays as virtues at all, physical strength being the most obvious example.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#12. 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
#13. Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.
Lauren Tarshis
#14. President Obama keeps telling us that he is "creating jobs." But more and more Americans have no jobs. The unemployment rate has declined slightly, but only because many people have stopped looking for jobs. You are only counted as unemployed if you are still looking for a job.
Thomas Sowell
#15. Carrying lockpicks was one bad sign. On the other hand, Owl was taking long enough getting the lock open she almost counted as honest.
"I'm not going to offer to do that," he said. "It'd just annoy you."
"If you do not wish to annoy me, be silent. I'm trying to be quiet about this.
Joanna Bourne
#16. A Spendthrift.-He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,-he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.
Anthony Liccione
#18. With characteristic exuberance Tom named this curiously constructed
house Castel des Tours saunz Nowmbre, which means the Castle of
Innumerable Towers. David Montefiore had counted the innumerable
towers in 1764. There were fourteen of them.
Susanna Clarke
#19. (Thirty-nine steps)' was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran - '(Thirty-nine steps, I counted them - high tide 10.17 p.m.)'. I could make nothing of that.
John Buchan
#20. (The Hindu's first issue counted a grand total of eighty copies, printed with 'one rupee and eight annas' of borrowed money by a group of four law students and two teachers). In
Shashi Tharoor
#21. A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
Boyd K. Packer
#22. By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
Hunter S. Thompson
#23. Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
Thomas E. Mann
#24. But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God. - Romans 4:5
Gary Chapman
#25. The city's legions of working men disagreed. They always had counted Harrison as one of their own, "Our Carter," even though he was a plantation-reared Kentucky man who had gone to Yale, spoke fluent French and German, and recited lengthy passages from Shakespeare.
Erik Larson
#26. The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.
Erich Ludendorff
#27. Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Barbara Boxer
#28. He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#29. To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#30. My grandmother simply shook her head and said, You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you.
Terry Tempest Williams
#31. 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
#32. We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.
Darl McBride
#33. I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
Ted Cruz
#34. The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
Richard Rohr
#35. 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
#36. But there was no use pretending: I was not the sort of person who counted blessings; I was the sort of person for whom there could never be enough blessings.
Jamaica Kincaid
#37. Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark.
Dean Koontz
#38. The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
Sophocles
#39. It was what his mother would have done in the circumstances. Boiled some fresh water, warmed the pot and counted out the spoonfuls of tea. Setting domestic order against the chaos, in the hope of winning some temporary reprieve from the vale of tears.
Clive Barker
#40. The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment ... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
Alfred North Whitehead
#41. I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#42. Yet what choice did he have? Nothing about this war was fair. Nothing about being Jewish was fair, The only question that counted was whether he wanted to live or not, and he did.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#43. Bruno. 'In Berlin we had a big house with five floors if you counted the
John Boyne
#44. His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.
Tony Evans
#45. Being with him was like being alone underwater
everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.
Ben Marcus
#46. The relationships that counted were those of choice, which made friendship the supreme bond, one that either party could sever, and all the more valuable for its precariousness.
Tom Rachman
#47. You're such a bookworm," Fenn said, shaking his head as he counted the books in my hand. "No," I corrected "I just want to be prepared.
Candace Knoebel
#49. Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.
Anthony Capella
#50. See, whoever said I was an autocrat was clearly mistaken. I represented the height of representative democracy where everyone gets a vote. Mine just counted for more than all the other ones combined, when you read the final tally; that's all.
Luke Sky Wachter
#51. He hadn't struck her as particularly religious unless she counted the number of times he'd called out to Jesus when he'd been deep inside her.
Amy Andrews
#52. By the time the seasons turned through four more reapings, he had been crowned king of Yudah. By the time I was counted a man, he had added the crown of the kingdom of Israel
Geraldine Brooks
#53. In 2011, during a debate over the nutritional guidelines for school lunches, Congress decided that pizza counted as a vegetable. And not for the first time.
Alex Mayyasi
#54. I recalled telling my daughter on many occasions that if she did not pick up her dirty clothes, they would walk to the wash basket themselves. I had not counted on dinner plates taking on a life of their own as well.
Caroline Mitchell
#55. It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper.
Nell Freudenberger
#56. I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.
Ben Bernanke
#57. The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Georg Buchner
#58. He had done the right thing and that was what counted. That was the best you could do in life. How others took it was beyond his control.
Douglas Preston
#60. Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.
Tennessee Williams
#62. He was unsweaty, undusty, and unbloody, but he was right. He was a critic who counted.
Jordan Ellenberg
#63. The quiet brings to mind the multitude of men and women living out their days in solitude - each convinced that their fears and wants are unique to themselves - and she longs to press herself into their fold and be counted among those whose lives are meshed with the turning of the world.
John Pipkin
#64. And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
Sam Donaldson
#65. Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.
Al Gore
#66. My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her ... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.
Salvador Dali
#67. It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.
L.M. Montgomery
#68. He had loads of colleagues, acquaintances, buddies. He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much.
Louise Penny
#69. 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
#70. The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights' . . . and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.
Robert A. Heinlein
#71. It is often very illuminating ... to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?
Walter Lippmann
#73. Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
Orson Welles
#74. That's the point. People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary. That's why those moments are all forgotten, counted as nothing. It's a terrible loss.
Ann Tatlock
#75. The days of infinity are endless. Its hours cannot be counted or found on a clock. There is no north, south, east, or west. These are just concepts. Infinity is forever, everywhere all at once. And that's all there is.
Frederick Lenz
#76. Still, to slaughter fellow-citizens, to betray friends, to be devoid of honour, pity, and religion, cannot be counted as merits, for these are means which may lead to power, but which confer no glory.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#77. I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.
Dolly Parton
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. If reading counted as a sport, I'd be a gold medalist.
Deb Caletti
#81. Like Riley said, I was god now. Stronger,faster, better. Nobody else counted.
Stephenie Meyer
#82. When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.
Margaret Cho
#83. The armored men counted to three, then burst inside the flat, shouting impressive things like "clear!" or "go go go!" as they did. Oda said, "Gum?"
"You chew gum?"
"No. but I always carry it, to use as barter when visiting prisons."
"Do you see how I'm not asking you?"
"Smart.
Kate Griffin
#84. The British theatre and establishment is so hard to penetrate, and there are so many talented people involved in it. So, to be counted among some of those actresses ... It doesn't get better than that.
Kelly Reilly
#86. In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
Mignon McLaughlin
#87. Men didn't feel the same way women did about sex. They'd take it when offered, same as they wouldn't pass up a cookie warm from the oven. No, it was the women who counted calories and fell in love.
Kristan Higgins
#88. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
Adrienne Rich
#89. The outcome was clear to Dodd well before the votes were counted. He wrote to Roosevelt, "The election here is a farce." Nothing indicated this more clearly than the vote within the camp at Dachau: 2,154 of 2,242 prisoners - 96 percent - voted in favor of Hitler's government. On
Erik Larson
#90. Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
Melina Marchetta
#91. Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.
Robert Kennedy
#92. To experience His fellowship in suffering we must do as the apostles did: rejoice because we have been counted worthy to suffer for His name (see Acts 5:41).
Jerry Bridges
#93. Life will always have a different plan for you. If you don't give up, you will eventually get to your destination. But towards the end of your life, you may look back and realize that it was never really about the destination; it was the journey that counted.
King Samuel Benson
#94. 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
#95. Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.
Robert Reich
#96. Something was happening to the five, however. Battered by the chance collision of several billion molecules, the die flipped onto a point, spun gently and came down a seven. Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides. "Come on," he said wearily. "Play fair.
Terry Pratchett
#97. I wanted to get to the wild place - to see a fish that counted as part of the natural world.
Emily Voigt
#98. Where I come from money isn't to be talked about or flaunted in front of strangers. But Ajax snatched up the wad and counted it out loud, ceremonially, slapping the notes down on the table while the witnesses mouthed the amounts. It was all so public and embarrassing.
John Mole
#99. It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#100. 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
