Counts Quotes - page 11

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts. (Jamie Ford)
Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere. View quote
Jennifer Donnelly
To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you're never "cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance. View quote
Dominique Venner
Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has. View quote
Eloisa James
Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts. View quote
Emmanuel Macron
The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency. View quote
Elihu Root
At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning. View quote
Yehuda Berg
Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe. View quote
Lauren Oliver
I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me. View quote
Annie Lennox
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. View quote
Sam Ewing
I am simply painting concrete representation of abstract emotions such as innocent love, ordinary happiness. I do want an emotional response. And I paint about emotions, not about lines. The truth is that it's not the lines that express the emotion. It's the scale of the composition. You know, if you go into a room that has perfect scale, you feel it... If the painting has perfect scale, it moves you. And you have different scale to show different emotions. It's the space between the lines that counts. (Agnes Martin)
Between the one who counts the facts, grouped according to their resemblance, in order to know what to believe regarding the value of therapeutic agents and him who does not count but always says "more or less frequent," there is the difference between truth and error, between something that is clear and truly scientific and something that is vague and without value-for what place is there in Science for that which is vague? View quote
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis
What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids' point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement-the competition won, the reward secured. View quote
Adam Gopnik
You don't quench ambition by feeding it any more than you quench a fire the same way,” said Cletus. "To an ambitious man, what he already has is nothing. It's what he doesn't have that counts. View quote
Gordon R. Dickson
It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are. View quote
Barbara Jordan
What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job. View quote
Diane Kruger
I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive. View quote
Cory Monteith
I have pursued this intellectual program by building a radical alternative in social theory to Marxism, by recasting legal thought as an instrument of the institutional imagination, by proposing particular institutional alternatives for the organization of the economy and the state, and by developing a philosophical conception of nature and mankind within which history is open, novelty is possible, and the divinization of humanity counts for more than the humanization of society. View quote
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts. View quote
Javier Cercas
Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts. View quote
Heber J. Grant
I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss. (Niall Horan)
When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts. View quote
Amber Riley
You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts. View quote
Amy Purdy
I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the every vote counts. View quote
Adam Carolla
I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts. View quote
Brad Goreski