Top 67 Quotes About Recount
#1. In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.
Conan O'Brien
#2. It was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia
James Madison
#3. When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
Michael Shermer
#4. For all these reasons, one cannot recount the history of modern science without acknowledging the crucial importance of Christianity. But this does not mean that Christianity and Christianity alone produced modern science,
Ronald L. Numbers
#5. I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.
Jon Weisman
#6. I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
James Altucher
#7. For a tiny speck in the Atlantic, Ireland has made an outsize contribution to world literature. It's a legacy we can all be proud of, one that would take many pages (or indeed a whole library of books) to recount in full.
Rashers Tierney
#8. I well understand why analysts demand high payment, for what can be more tedious than listening to another person recount his dreams?
Truman Capote
#9. When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.
Isabel Gillies
#10. A fairy tale is one way to recount history. The
Michele Audin
#11. Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#12. I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.
Carol Burnett
#13. It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.
Elizabeth Kenny
#14. I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your g wonderful deeds.
Anonymous
#15. In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.
John Ensign
#16. I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part.
Emily Saliers
#17. Klain had suffered a heartbreaking defeat. But it had led to his being played by Kevin Spacey in the HBO movie Recount, which made him semi-hemi-demi-famous. Klain delivered a frank
Anonymous
#19. The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
Elizabeth Bowen
#20. If we should recount Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told, The words would add more anguish than the wounds.
William Shakespeare
#21. I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?
Elaine Dundy
#22. I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.
Kresley Cole
#23. But whosoever recount his true merits to Thee, what is it that he recounts to Thee but Thine own gifts? Oh, if men would know themselves to be men ...
Augustine Of Hippo
#24. I'm obsessed with trying to recount events as accurately and honestly as possible, but in practice the only thing I'm really any good at is telling you how I feel.
Jason Christopher Hartley
#25. If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.
Jonathan Haidt
#26. The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.
Kenneth Blackwell
#27. For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!
Epictetus
#28. When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.
Umberto Eco
#29. If i can only recount
the story of my life
right out of my body
flames will grow
Rumi
#30. To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in, and another, for they are all part of the same garment - Tudor, Lancaster, York, Plantagenet.
Margaret George
#31. No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.
Katherine Harris
#32. For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#33. To a degree that would be astonishing in the United States, Vietnamese in all walks of life could recite long passages from poems, recount folktales and legends, and discuss novels thirty years old as if the characters lived next door.
Neil L. Jamieson
#34. Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.
Kenneth Blackwell
#35. Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
Edvard Munch
#36. God has done more than I could ask or even imagine on more occasions than I could ever recount. His ways are higher than my ways. My ideas simply cannot compete with his.
Dillon Burroughs
#37. I had an infinite number of questions and would have been happy for her to recount her life in real time, would have been happy to walk on past Whitechapel and Limehouse into Essex and the estuary and on into the sea if she'd wanted to.
David Nicholls
#38. We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#39. Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.
Andre Gide
#40. Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
John Milton
#41. So it was agreed: we would while we were here seek the whole of the Oxford thing, together when we could, apart when we must. And I did, most faithfully, recount all to her, and in the end what was to prove the deepest part of our Oxford days we shared completely. One
Sheldon Vanauken
#42. I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.
Suzanne Shaw
#43. The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
Kinky Friedman
#44. It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.
Kevin Spacey
#45. We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.
Brit Hume
#46. I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.
Robert Torricelli
#47. In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#48. They recount their earliest memories without any sympathy for the child they once were,
Alice Miller
#49. If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
Madeleine L'Engle
#50. I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation. - Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.
Chuck Klosterman
#51. Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don't want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.
Joshua Gaylord
#52. Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
Aleksandar Hemon
#53. Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto your children and they unto theirs.
Yehuda L. Bialer
#54. To recount modern life one has to have characters with iPads and smart phones who take trains and planes, and to be aware how this alters consciousness, identity, and the kind of experiences people have. They are constantly exposed to contact from everyone they know and many they don't.
Tim Parks
#55. RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
Ambrose Bierce
#56. Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind ...
Claude Debussy
#57. He was enraged and bitter and hoped for a personal meeting with Sarkozy where he would recount to him France's colonial history in Africa and make him see reasons why her policy of assimilation was a voyage to the destruction of Africa, its people, land, culture and sense of belonging.
S.A. David
#58. Everything that I have known
You'll write to me to remind
Me of, and likewise I shall do
The whole past I'll recount to you
Friedrich Holderlin
#59. If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.
Tom Brown Jr.
#60. A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.
Walter Moers
#61. Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?
Nicolas Caussin
#62. The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
Ann Coulter
#63. No, it was not the money that I valued - what I wanted was to make all this mob of Heintzes, hotel proprietors, and fine ladies of Baden talk about me, recount my story, wonder at me, extol my doings, and worship my winnings.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#64. Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.
Ramona Koval
#65. I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.
Heinrich Heine
#66. I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.
Joan Blades
#67. But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.
Neil Gaiman
