Quotes with counts

  • I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
  • Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
  • We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
  • Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Barbara Cartland A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Aristotle Onassis After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Aaron Hill Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Every little thing counts in a crisis.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Alain de Botton I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • B. B. King I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Billy Graham It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
    The quotable Billy Graham (1966)
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Sidney Madwed It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Adlai Stevenson II It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
    Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954).
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Eric Lindros It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
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  • George Orwell It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mae West It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Will Rogers It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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