To Count On Quotes

#1. Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.

Bill Maher

#2. We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

Knute Rockne

#3. Now suppose that at the end of the page you get another instruction: count all the commas in the next page. This will be harder, because you will have to overcome the newly acquired tendency to focus attention on the letter f.

Daniel Kahneman

#4. The beauty of the infantry is its ability to truly teach tolerance. At the lowest level, when it is simply a matter of survival to count on everyone around you, regardless of religion or skin color, the only logical option is to ignore the differences.

Adam Fenner

#5. If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and an endless barrage of ridicule and insults. It feels like the only thing I can count on right now. I don't want something dumb like respect and affection getting in the way.

Michael Buckley

#6. Count this as a mere taste, sweetheart, of all the pleasure I can give you. Marry me and let me show you more. Be mine, and I'll take you on a journey the likes of which you've ever only imagined. ~~ Adam to Mallory

Tracy Anne Warren

#7. I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

Kevin Costner

#8. Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on.

Bo Burnham

#9. The sad reality is, it's not just the people I go to school with that are doing it. It's their parents too. Their noses are all turned up at me, like because of my diagnosis; I'm an alien to them. I'm not like their son or daughter so that means I'm not worthy of respect.

Melyssa Winchester

#10. The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

Susane Colasanti

#11. I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?

Andy Cohen

#12. It's because we help out when they're in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.
-Shikamaru Nara

Masashi Kishimoto

#13. We can always count on people to hate and to fear.To harm one another and to be harmed.To kill and be killed.It is what opens the gate.

Simon Holt

#14. In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

Michael Shnayerson

#15. Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.

Larry Winget

#16. Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

Stephen Collins

#17. 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

#18. I can't tell you. I can't tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I've lost you, I've lost everything.

Tabitha Suzuma

#19. You have to live your life and not count on things being there tomorrow or the next day.

Tere Michaels

#20. We've always known that Democrats are anti-war, and we've always known that we can't really count on them when it comes to national defense. But we have finally seen with whom they will go to war: the American people who disagree with them.

Rush Limbaugh

#21. While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

John Wooden

#22. We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.

Robert Pozen

#23. You can always count on God to do nothing.

Marty Rubin

#24. I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on ... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal

Orhan Pamuk

#25. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?

Alicia Kobishop

#26. Under the burning sun on the street I began to feel the weight of my ninety years, and to count minute by minute the minutes of the nights I had left before I died.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#27. Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.

Colin Powell

#28. How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

Antony Gormley

#29. It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

Gina Greenlee

#30. Definition of good neighbor: someone to be trusted; a courteous, friendly source of help when help is needed; someone you can count on; someone who cares.

Edward B. Rust Jr.

#31. You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Jane Seymour

#32. Vacations in my family are rare events squeezed between races. I can count them on one hand, and even those amount to only a few hours each. Shopping in Los Angeles. Sinking my toes into snow white sand in Florida. They are tiny slips of memory strung around horses.

Mara Dabrishus

#33. We cannot count on strategic warning. We might get it, and we might be able to take useful preparatory actions that would be impossible without it. We certainly ought to plan to exploit such a possibility should it occur.

Anonymous

#34. I would like to thank my arms, for always being by my side. My legs, for always supporting me, and my fingers, because I can always count on them.

Anonymous

#35. If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

Kaley Cuoco

#36. And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the "perchance." And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.

Alan Jacobs

#37. I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

Ben Affleck

#38. I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.

Shahrukh Khan

#39. I didn't seem to exist, except in relation to her. I would watch her sleep across the roomfromme, one long shadow linking our beds, and I would count the ways. Poison, sprinkled on her cereal. A wicked undertow off the beach. Lightning striking.

Anonymous

#40. It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

Sheryl Crow

#41. There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

Rex Tillerson

#42. My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.

Nelly

#43. We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

Gene Ween

#44. If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on.

Fred DeLuca

#45. Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life.

Isabel Allende

#46. I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

Susan B. Anthony

#47. You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'

Martin McGuinness

#48. Parting is such sweet sorrow, according to the bards. I wouldn't know, myself. I never parted anyone." He mimed ripping someone in half, then got an odd expression on his face. "Well. Just the one time, really. Doesn't count.

Rachel Caine

#49. Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.

Tom Clancy

#50. When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

Jonathan Demme

#51. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

Oswald Chambers

#52. Many of our patients are barely aware of their breath, so learning to focus on the in and out breath, to notice whether the breath was fast or slow, and to count breaths in some poses can be a significant accomplishment.13

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#53. The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.

Charles R. Swindoll

#54. I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special shot when I put him down with the famous Horsley Muckspreader right hand ... an unstoppable force. Incredibly, he got up and took the count and the ref waved us to continue.

Stephen Richards

#55. I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word 'women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia."
"Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.

Patricia Briggs

#56. Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

Lorrie Moore

#57. I guess that's what happens when you've lost everything that had any real meaning. You become numb to what's left.

Melyssa Winchester

#58. Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character.

Jim George

#59. Mummies unraveled
and put on new wraps.
Spiders found corners
and spun silky traps.
Count Dracula grinned
and slicked back his hair.
Frankenstein's bride cried,
"I've nothing to wear!

Natasha Wing

#60. You can't count on success; you can only leave open the possibility for it, and be ready to jump on and take the ride when it comes for you.

Austin Kleon

#61. I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count's voice saying to me, "Good morning." I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me.

Bram Stoker

#62. I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#63. You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.

Winston S. Churchill

#64. in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

Theodore Roosevelt

#65. You don't even like poetry," Tessa said, her voice catching on a half laugh of relief.
"No. But you make me want to write it. Does that not count for anything?

Cassandra Clare

#66. kitchen, where she could count on Tirzah to be

Anita Diamant

#67. Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Charles Simic

#68. The Sherpa of Changli had a saying: A man can count on two hands all the climbs he conquers, and that man conquers nothing. I always took this to mean the more we summit the more we lose.

Hugh Howey

#69. There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.

Howard Frank Mosher

#70. I own more pairs of Calvin Klein underwear than I can count. At any given time, I probably have 50 to 60 pairs on deck. I travel with an entire suitcase of underwear and t-shirts, and they're all Calvin Klein.

Trey Songz

#71. Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.

Ai-jen Poo

#72. If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Paul Harvey

#73. Sometimes in life you have to count on the little things to keep you happy ...

Rida Altaf

#74. Whiskey grunted. By his count, he and Patrick had six days to go before he hauled the kid out by his ear on field work and let Fly Bait plan the destruction of all testosterone-based land mammals on general principal.

Amy Lane

#75. Because it can be very difficult to go talk to a member of the clergy, people must be able to count on the promise that what they say will not be repeated. Therefore, like therapists, ministers practice confidentiality in order to establish trust with those in their care.

Matthew Floding

#76. ... If I wanna shit I am going to buy it from the shop... what I need now is a friend on which I can count on... you know the drill.

Deyth Banger

#77. Count Chemenensky was quietly gnawing on something, which, upon further inspection, appeared to be his own tattered clothing. Mon Dieu.

Robin Bridges

#78. When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

Nicholas Lea

#79. It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves.
Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

Suzanne Collins

#80. You still belong on the other side of the looking glass. Someday, when you're ready to take the step over to our side, I'll come see you again. Live well, Daniel. Make that final step count.

Marie Lu

#81. Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

Sonia Friedman

#82. You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

Dan Chaon

#83. That makes,what? The second time I've saved your life? Third, if you count that thing in Defense with the Vandy. Speaking of which, you're still thrusting your elbow too high on Skill Nine."
I swallowed twice before I was able to answer. "I'll work on that.

Rachel Hawkins

#84. Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he's got the reality to feed it.

James Anderson

#85. Thanks, Gav. I can always count on you to say things that help me in no way whatsoever.

M. Leighton

#86. Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on the outcome of the latter days by sending men and women he couldn't count on? There is no chance - zero chance - He would have done that.

Sheri Dew

#87. I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?'

Katharine McPhee

#88. Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small mind?

Robin R. Meyers

#89. 82/ The truth is that writing is simply not reliable. You can't count on it to be there just because you've made time for it. In fact, making space might make it disappear.

Kim Addonizio

#90. Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

George Bernard Shaw

#91. The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

Regina Brett

#92. This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore

Brian Andreas

#93. Count on big lines to express your ideas.

Robert Henri

#94. We need God to give us a holy obsession with bringing him glory and increasing his reputation. I can't manufacture love for God on my own. I love my life too much. I count my life as too precious. I need God to help me love his honor above everything else.

Stephen Altrogge

#95. I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, "do I want to be remembered for this?" before I get to the point of spending a year on it.

Charles Stross

#96. I'm not sure why that story came back to me while I sat huddled in Sydney's car on the way to the lake. It happened so long ago. I guess maybe it was because it gave me the assurance that when things got bad, there were certain people you could always count on.

D.J. MacHale

#97. I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

Nolan Ryan

#98. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. You can bet I'm going to make this day count! Will you?

Steve Maraboli

#99. Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

Jeff Dunham

#100. Bureaucracies excel at performing tasks that must be done consistently whether the people assigned to them are brilliant performers or bumbling fools. You can't always count on having Albert Einstein in the patent office, so you design its procedures to work even if you hire Mr. Bean by mistake.

Charles Stross