Top 100 Quotes About Counts
#1. It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.
Andrew Norman Wilson
#2. The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Desmond Tutu
#3. Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
Louis L'Amour
#4. You are
What you do
When it counts"
- The Masao
John Steakley
#5. I have found that it's not so much how you start, but how you finish that counts." -Declan
Brittany L. Engels
#6. It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.
Ray Price
#7. It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.
Red Auerbach
#8. There's the matter of picking the time. There's such a thing as the favorable moment. Determination alone counts for nothing.
Yukio Mishima
#9. People always say The God Father is the #1 movie of all time. But ask yourself, did you see Zach Braff in it ... No you didn't. So then by default it goes to Garden State..and if youwatch two episodes of scrubs back to back that counts as the #2.
Zach Braff
#10. I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.
Carrie Underwood
#11. He's my brother, not by blood, but in the way it counts. We've stood strong on the streets together. There's nothing I wouldn't do for him or Beth
Katie McGarry
#12. Some things in life are just out of our control. It's what we do about them that counts.
Nora Roberts
#13. We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl
"He Counts Their Tears" by Mary Ann D'Alto
Mary Ann D'Alto
#14. History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
...
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody's place in line.
Wislawa Szymborska
#15. Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.
Eloisa James
#16. It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.
A. Philip Randolph
#17. In my opinion, a superior mind counts for nothing unless accompanied by a superior heart.
Sophie Hannah
#18. Your life counts. That's the only fact you need to remember.
Marty Rubin
#19. The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts
Stephen Gaskin
#20. I told you to wait," he snapped at Alec.
"Don't you ever do anything I tell you to?"
"Technically you didn't actually say anything,"
Clary said. "You just gestured."
"Gesturing counts," Jace said. "I gesture
very expressively.
Cassandra Clare
#21. I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#22. Whenever you heal any relationship,
your whole life improves -
and that counts for double with family.
Robert Holden
#24. The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.
Margrethe II Of Denmark
#25. It's not what you believe that counts; it's what you believe enough to do.
Richard Stearns
#26. The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.
Susan Sontag
#27. What counts is to be in the world, the posture is immaterial, so long as one is on earth. To breathe is all that is required.
Samuel Beckett
#28. In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.
Nathaniel Branden
#29. After the play, he counts on playing cards,
and he on a wild night in some girl's arms -
why, in a cause like this, must you poor fools
so sorely try the Muses' kindness
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#30. Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.
Ming-Dao Deng
#31. It's not what you have done in your past,
but what you are doing for your
future that counts!
Timothy Pina
#32. The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Virgil
#33. The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers
a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
Shirley Chisholm
#34. One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination ... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.
Marcel Duchamp
#35. The only thing that counts is a satisfied customer.
Jan Carlzon
#37. Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Aaron Hill
#38. Be the good, kind, lovable person you want to see in the world. Every action counts and the more people who behave and act with love and caring the more the world becomes a better place. We can do this!
Deon Potgieter
#39. In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
Georges Braque
#40. Can you dance?
Of course, I said, even though I can't really. I think enthusiasm counts for a lot in dancing and in life.
Susan Juby
#41. Everybody freaks out at some point. It's how you patch yourself up that counts.
Jessica Spotswood
#42. You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.
Tommy Smothers
#43. Christ counts it his honour, that he is a king of a willing people, and not of slaves. He comes to make you free, not to bring you into bondage, to make you kings, not vassals. None
William Gurnall
#44. It is not the years that count; what counts is what you did in those years.
Debasish Mridha
#45. For ideas to matter they have to make noise. A pen scribbling on paper, counts.
Garry Fitchett
#46. This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.
Thomas Hirschhorn
#47. We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges
Winston Churchill
#48. What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
Jack Nicholson
#49. It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.
W.C. Fields
#50. We ought to love children, as my friend Deborah says, 'for no good reason.' Furthermore, what counts is not that we believe we love them unconditionally, but that they feel loved in that way.
Alfie Kohn
#51. Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room - it never gets old.
Michael Graves
#52. Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.
David Folkenflik
#53. Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.
Peter Bofinger
#54. I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
Ziggy Marley
#55. What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.
Ronald Dworkin
#56. But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?
Chris Cleave
#57. We didn't always get on, you know that, but ... yes. We respected each other; that counts for a lot. And we liked each other, in spite of everything. Yes,
Diana Gabaldon
#58. Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.
Charles Studd
#59. Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
John Milton
#60. As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.
Shawn Johnson
#61. There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.
Billy Graham
#62. Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.
E. O. Wilson
#63. At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#64. Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#65. No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.
Tiffany Thornton
#66. What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
Richard Rorty
#67. But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.
Tertullian
#68. Only thing that counts are ideas. Behind ideas are [moral] principles. Either one is serious or one is not. Must be prepared to make sacrifices. I'm not a liberal.
Susan Sontag
#69. In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.
Eric Hoffer
#70. The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
#71. Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni
#72. Some spray-painted graffiti on the wall asks, Is it nothing to you all who pass by? Lamentations 1:12 and I think, No, Lord, whoever the hell You are, this is not nothing to me. This counts.
Rachel Cohn
#73. About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
Robert Fulghum
#74. Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Paul Scott
#75. Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.
Euripides
#77. What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.
Brian Dennehy
#78. I'II be happy when ...
Choose to be happy now. The journey counts, every single step make it count. Never loose sight of your smile.
Truth Devour
#79. We are before one gaze and His is the only one that counts.
Dana Candler
#80. Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
Thomas S. Monson
#81. In the end, what counts is what you do.
Leroy Hood
#82. At risk of being one of those annoying quote folks, a good friend balked at the idea of putting a steroid needle into this one. She said that I should never risk the story for word counts. I have to admit that she had a damned good point and I'm following her advice on this one. Thanks Lee! So
Wayne Lemmons
#83. That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins.
Jay Leno
#84. Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much. It's the long-term trend that counts.
Corey Flintoff
#85. What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy ... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.
Wyclef Jean
#86. The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#87. Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it ... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.
Emily Carr
#90. I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.
Andrew Wyatt
#92. Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Edward Dmytryk
#93. I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that's what counts. That's why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.
Bernard Hopkins
#94. It is not the hours of practice that matter ... it's what you put into the hours that counts.
Jim Rohn
#96. The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
Umberto Eco
#97. Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character.
Matthew Pearl
#98. What counts in life usually cannot be counted.
Robert Gordis
#99. The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.
Paul Brown
#100. The key to life is resilience ... We will always be knocked down. It's the getting up that counts.
Dominique Browning
