To Count Quotes

#1. Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#2. I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.

Nate Berkus

#3. After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

Donna Rice

#4. Having already had one glorious marriage, perhaps I ought to count myself lucky and stop while I'm ahead.

Judith McNaught

#5. To be fully human has little to do with always being the centre of attention, getting your way and having all your ambitions met. To be fully human is to be like Christ, to 'count others better than yourselves' (Phil 2:13)...It takes rare strength to treat others as more important than yourself.

Dick Keyes

#6. People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

Enric Sala

#8. A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.

Thomas Huxley

#9. When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future.

Gretchen Rubin

#10. Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those recommendations will be helpful as we continue to count on them to protect us.

Roy Blunt

#11. I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

Red Schoendienst

#12. Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

Al Jarreau

#13. It's easy to count your problems. Going forward, every time you mention a problem, also mention a blessing in your life. Just doing that will add light to your troubles and hopefully make them less of a burden.

David Mezzapelle

#14. All that money and still unable to count the blessings of her life, beginning with freedom from the paycheck.

Stephen King

#15. I'm quite proud of growing up in New Zealand where, from quite early on in primary school, you're learning to count in Maori, Maori mythology and dances and colours and history, and I think that gives a child a really good grounding.

Martin Henderson

#16. I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.

Larry Niven

#17. A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

Robert Breault

#18. If we want something to count in our lives, we should figure out a way to count it.

Gretchen Rubin

#19. But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

Louie Giglio

#20. If I were you," Tom said, "I should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic." "But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?" Tom held up his hands. "I'm sorry, you're losing me." Mary exhaled smoke. "Possibly I am.

Chris Cleave

#21. Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

Timothy Miller

#22. Infinity is against us," I told him. "There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it.

David Levithan

#23. One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Maxim Gorky

#24. The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Gustave Flaubert

#25. When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.

Joaquin Sorolla

#26. A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

Abhishek Bachchan

#27. You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!

Scott Lynch

#28. A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

Mitch McConnell

#29. When we feel sad, all we need to do is to count our blessings, no matter how few we notice, so we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.

Akiane Kramarik

#30. THE LAW OF COUNTABILITY Teammates Must Be Able to Count on Each Other When It Counts

John C. Maxwell

#31. They tell us to count our blessings whilst they count the coffers

Dean Cavanagh

#32. There are plenty of bad people in the world," he said. "Too many to count. But there are good people, too.

Lauren Tarshis

#33. I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

Simon Pegg

#34. Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Aristotle.

#35. It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

Steven Sinofsky

#36. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer

Jenny Han

#37. I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

Bob Woodward

#38. The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

Paul Auster

#39. It's all i have to bring today
this and my heart beside
this and my heart and all the fields
and all the meadows wide
be sure to count
should i forget
someone the sum could tell
this and my heart and all the bees
which in the clovers dwell

Emily Dickinson

#40. People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other,

Allegra Goodman

#41. It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

William Shakespeare

#42. The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

Jerry Garcia

#43. All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Roger Bacon

#44. As I walked, I started making a list of everyone in the mage world whom I'd opposed, fought with, or otherwise irritated. After I ran out of fingers to count on I decided to limit the number to people I'd pissed off relatively recently.

Benedict Jacka

#45. Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.

Nora Roberts

#46. If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

James Thurber

#47. The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

Joan Robinson

#48. School just speeds things up ... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

Louis Sachar

#49. I have so many friends I couldn't even count them on one hand - not even if I had six fingers. Now, if I had seven fingers, I could count on them, but I still wouldn't be able to count on my friends.

Jarod Kintz

#50. Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#51. So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and expect the occasional nicety to count for much. Those bonds break away much more quickly and permanently than most people would like to believe.

Anthony Breznican

#52. There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going to count as a psychiatric disorder in a couple of years.

Pico Iyer

#53. I know life all too well. But I turned from that path. I'm not a rat anymore. I'm the lightning girl, and now I have too many ideas to count. Freedom, revenge, liberty, everything that fuels the sparks within me, and the resolve that keeps me going.

Victoria Aveyard

#54. L1, by process of elimination," Luisa said drily, and laughed. "You space people love to count down, I know your ways." "It's

Neal Stephenson

#55. Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

Dr. Seuss

#56. I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

Rita Rudner

#57. The boy is so stupid; to count to twenty-one he'd have to drop his pants.

James Axler

#58. Granny Weatherwax always held that you ought to count up to ten before losing your temper. No one knew why, because the only effect of this was to build up the pressure and make the ensuing explosion a whole lot worse.

Terry Pratchett

#59. I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

Albert Einstein

#60. He couldn't count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.

J.U. Scribe

#61. Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I'd been on combat missions. 217 days. And I'm still paying the price for every one of those days.

Vladislav Tamarov

#62. I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.

Alanis Morissette

#63. You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#64. Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

Jonathan Edwards

#65. Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Jonathan Swift

#66. How selfish and dark it was to count my blessings based on another's hell

Mercy Cortez

#67. To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood ...

Henry Newbolt

#68. You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Matthew Thomas

#69. Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#70. Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.

Lewis H. Lapham

#71. Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

Zubin Mehta

#72. The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.

Kid Nichols

#73. 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

#74. The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Cyril Cusack

#75. But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

Chris Cleave

#76. I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards - all that your can do is to have me killed.

Sophocles

#77. You want to count, Gabrielle? One! She sucked in a breath, mad enough the words slid right out. You asshole, one!

Cherise Sinclair

#78. We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.

Thabo Mbeki

#79. I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

Kristen Bell

#80. Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.

Mark Skousen

#81. People are hungering for property - for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only ownership can protect or defend. It is humiliating to possess nothing, to own nothing, and hence to produce nothing and to count for nothing.

Louis O. Kelso

#82. Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind.

Steve Maraboli

#83. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

#84. But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Aristotle.

#85. The thing is this: Even if the husband leaves her in this awful craven way, she will still have to count it as a miracle, all of those happy years she spent with him. "It was a fucking miracle that I found him," she tells the philosopher.

Jenny Offill

#86. Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

Thomas Sowell

#87. My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.

Ralph Webster

#88. What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

Gloria Steinem

#89. I'd learned early on that it was easier not to count on anyone.

Nina Lane

#90. Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

Rick Riordan

#91. People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT, I will not allow the choice of the people to be subverted by any party, not even APC

Muhammadu Buhari

#92. I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Ray Lamontagne

#93. Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else.

Woodrow M. Kroll

#94. Now, every day when I wake up I am grateful. I have to be. And I have to count the things that are abundant in my life. Literally count them. If I don't they will begin to disappear. I've watched them disappear before. I don't want it to happen again. In

James Altucher

#95. Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.

Richard M. Nixon

#96. I liked to count my blessings in a world where they were so few, and he was one of mine.

Christina L. Barr

#97. Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

Christopher Columbus

#98. Most of the things that truly make us happy in life are hard to count

Kamran Niazi

#99. Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

O. Henry

#100. I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Lord Byron