Counts Quotes - page 15

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest thought, action is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go. (Cesare Pavese)
Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn't qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things. On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical entertainment happened, and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name. And then he pointed to the hall of people, and said words to the effect of, "I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck am I doing here? They've made amazing things. I just went where I was sent." And I said, "Yes. But you were the first man on the moon. I think that counts for something." View quote
Neil Gaiman
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations. One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts. View quote
Carrie Underwood
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power... Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts. View quote
Lance Armstrong
How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts. View quote
Lance Armstrong
Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary. View quote
Ricky Gervais
I told you to wait,” he snapped at Alec. "Don't you ever do anything I tell you to?” "Technically you didn't actually say anything,” Clary said. "You just gestured.” "Gesturing counts,” Jace said. "I gesture very expressively. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Just pop it on your wrist. - Ricky asks Karl how his 'invention' of a watch that counts down your life would actually work. View quote
Karl Pilkington
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog. (Barry McGuigan)
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantageand seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. View quote
Dean Koontz
To the eye of God there are no numbers: seeing all things at one time, he counts nothing. View quote
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends. View quote
C. T. Studd
It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it. View quote
Anthony Storr
I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book. View quote
Maggie Stiefvater
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. View quote
George Washington Carver
We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run. View quote
Mercedes Lackey
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us - what convictions, what courage, what faith - win or lose. (Adlai Stevenson II)
One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility. View quote
Meher Baba
Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more. View quote
James Montgomery
Its not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt