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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows -- Dean Koontz
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. -- Emily Dickinson
When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out. -- Tammy Baldwin
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. -- Mark Twain
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. -- Ronald Reagan
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it. -- Herman Cain
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards. -- Thomas E. Mann
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died. -- Hunter S. Thompson
In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads. -- Karen Maitland
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. -- Wislawa Szymborska
When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted. -- Margaret Cho
Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. -- Nelson Mandela
Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us. -- Boyd Rice
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. -- Robert Frost
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves. -- Shirley Chisholm
When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. -- John Piper
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. -- Thomas J. Watson
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President. -- Barbara Boxer
I went to state in track, won the girls' city championship, and did well in volleyball. I was a varsity cheerleader. So you know, shoot, I've got a couple of letters and things! Last I counted, I think there were eight in my mama's house. -- Vivica A. Fox
Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy? -- Jeff Goodell
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on. -- Henri Nouwen
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. -- Chauncey Depew
The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted. -- Kenneth Blackwell
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings. -- Dallas Willard
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. -- Aristotle
If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending. -- Robert Higgs
Inaction counted as a choice. -- Dean Koontz
I like to be counted on. -- Jeff Bezos
Votes should be weighed not counted. -- Friedrich Schiller
Not all that counts, can be counted -- Albert Einstein
... what counts in life usually cannot be counted. -- Robert Gordis
If one by one we counted people out -- Robert Frost
It's time to lie down and be counted. -- The Irresistible Force
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I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched. -- Eric Kripke
I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation. -- Robert A. Heinlein
In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch. -- Mark Twain
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted. -- Barbara Mikulski
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted -- Barbara Mikulski
Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What counted was not the facts but the fears. -- Max Lerner
You were the first in every way that counted. -- Josh Lanyon
I want to be that counted-on guy to score goals. -- Eric Staal
Not even self-love can always be counted on for support. -- Mason Cooley
Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed. -- Muhammad Iqbal
We counted 19 missiles that landed in a small area of Baghdad. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. -- Jeremiah
The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken. -- David Mitchell
Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young. -- John Green
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I counted them all out and I counted them all back. -- Brian Hanrahan
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations -- Arthur Koestler
Don't never drop your head. Don't never feel like you counted out. -- Gucci Mane
The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth. -- Homer
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself. -- Bobbie Ann Mason
How much you give is not counted by amount, but by fraction -- Sophia Cajon
Why could we say more to each other when it counted less? -- Laura Dave
Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential. -- Charles Frazier
To be counted in the world's top 10 of anything I guess gets eyeballs. -- Hrithik Roshan
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. -- Georg Buchner
There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted. -- Gale Sayers
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. -- Leo Rosten
What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count. -- Albert Einstein
I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted. -- Aminatta Forna
I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote. -- Ted Cruz
The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED. -- Zig Ziglar
Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently! -- Pitirim Sorokin
Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted. -- Anthony Capella
Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage. -- Tom Jones
Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level. -- Tennessee Williams
I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. -- Henri Matisse
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. -- Albert Einstein
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted. -- Henry Steele Commager
I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me. -- Elizabeth Proctor
my beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body. -- Pablo Neruda
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures. -- Katherine Cecil Thurston
With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on. -- Susan Sarandon
Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something. -- Lauren Tarshis
I don't think anyone who has ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man. -- Dave Rowntree
I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps. -- Kim Cattrall
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure. -- Edgar Cayce
The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived. -- Spencer Johnson
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today. -- Darl McBride
Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held. -- Ann Voskamp
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. -- Adrienne Rich
The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand. -- Jack Markell
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player. -- William Alexander
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times. -- Richard Rohr
Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time. -- Lisa Scottoline
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody. -- David Axelrod
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. -- James A. Garfield
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better. -- Stephen Leacock
The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity. -- Erich Ludendorff
In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
He had always thought that death was black nothingness, but he had not counted on being awake for it. -- Kay Kenyon
Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before. -- Benjamin Graham
It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing. -- Paolo Giordano
Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted. -- Tacitus
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. -- William Bennett
I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses. -- Ben Bernanke
America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives. -- Winston Churchill
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed. -- Roseanne Barr
The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast. -- Mario Diaz-Balart
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. -- Hannah Arendt
Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted. -- Lena Horne
Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later. -- Douglas Adams
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess. -- Alain de Botton
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted. -- James Cook
The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead. -- Sophocles
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all "? but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. -- Mignon McLaughlin
It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. -- Ambrose Bierce
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted. -- Barack Obama

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