Counts Quotes - page 14

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts. (George Gershwin)
The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is. View quote
Umberto Eco
The time is out of joint. The world is going badly. It is worn but its wear no longer counts. Old age or youth-one no longer counts in that way. The world has more than one age. We lack the measure of the measure. We no longer realize the wear, we no longer take account of it as of a single age in the progress of history. Neither maturation, nor crisis, nor even agony. Something else. What is happening is happening to age itself, it strikes a blow at the teleological order of history. What is coming, in which the untimely appears, is happening to time but it does not happen in time. Contretemps. The time is out of joint. View quote
Jacques Derrida
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. View quote
Henry Ossawa Tanner
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. View quote
Virgil
Discipline in war counts more than fury. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
So ever and again young Godric's dreams well up to flood old Godric's prayers, or prayers and dreams reach God in such a snarl he has to comb the tangle out, and who knows which he counts more dear. View quote
Frederick Buechner
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. View quote
King Hussein
Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world. (Ismail Haniyeh)
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. View quote
Constantin Brâncuși
The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign. View quote
Nathalia Crane
During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results. View quote
François Hollande
This creature, this Baab, with his spiritual weapons, was in the end found guilty on fifty-five counts of murder, on twenty-one counts of attempted murder, on thirty counts of assault and battery, and a variety of lesser offences. View quote
Heinrich Baab
It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity. View quote
William Carlos Williams
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity. View quote
William Carlos Williams
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
There are no heroes in Dick's books, but there are heroics. One is reminded of Dickens: what counts is the honesty, constancy, kindness and patience of ordinary people. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. (Margaret Atwood)
There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction. View quote
Philip Johnson
No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts. View quote
Daniel Keyes
Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts. View quote
Daniel Keyes
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. View quote
Philip Roth