Count Quotes - page 32

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them. (Maya Angelou)
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. View quote
Steven Wright
Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations. View quote
Daniel Levitin
We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply. View quote
Woody Harrelson
One should count each day a separate life. View quote
Seneca
Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty? View quote
Auberon Herbert
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles. View quote
William Penn
I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion. View quote
Beatrix Potter
Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful time to come together and really just count our blessings. And to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us and for this country and all those freedoms we love. View quote
Robert Hurt
I find it necessary on the first page of this book, quite ready for publication, to give the following advice: :Read each of my written expositions thrice: :Firstly: at least as you have already become mechanized to read all your contemporary books and newspapers. :Secondly: as if you were reading aloud to another person. :And only thirdly: try and fathom the gist of my writings. Only then will you be able to count upon forming your own impartial judgment, proper to yourself alone, on my writings. And only then can my hope be actualized that according to your understanding you will obtain the specific benefit for yourself which I anticipate, and which I wish for you with all my being. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
When it has become silly to suppose that the role of our government should be to "seek balance," then count me with the silly, for that means that this has become quite serious indeed. (Lawrence Lessig)
I count myself among them - are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away. View quote
David Gemmell
Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others - and I count myself among them - are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away. View quote
David Gemmell
I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand. View quote
Sarah McLachlan
How do I love thee Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They dont leave any lasting scar in the world, and they dont affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count. View quote
Willa Cather
I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything. View quote
Hope Solo
[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up. View quote
Nora Roberts
If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. View quote
Ausonius
I count my blessings for the fact I don't have to go into that pit that John Major stands in, nose-to-nose with the opposition, all yelling at each other. (George H. W. Bush)
People fell in love, and lost, and moved on. He didn't know why he couldn't. He didn't know why he didn't even want to. All he knew was that whatever he had to owe to Hell or Heaven for this chance, he was going to make it count. View quote
Cassandra Clare
There came to these selected stocks a deadly, ungrateful complacence, which made them count these opportunities as their achievements, and belittle everybody else's achievements unless they were similarly confused with opportunities; and which did worse than this, by abolishing all standards from their minds except what they themselves were and did. View quote
Rebecca West
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. View quote
Jimmy Carter
One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that. View quote
St. Vincent (musician)