Counted Quotes

317 quotes by 270 authors

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road Iâ€™d ever seen, where… — Melina Marchetta
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give… — Albert Camus
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
God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted… — Heinrich Heine
I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at allâ€”steps to the refrigerator,… — Mary Karr
She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces,… — Sarah Waters
Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time. — Lisa Scottoline
Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was… — Lisa Scottoline
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows — Dean Koontz
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives… — Jasper Fforde
I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on… — Haruki Murakami
All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here. — Jodi Picoult
THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL… — John Irving
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted,… — Cecelia Ahern
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. — Melina Marchetta
All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate… — Corrie Ten Boom
There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the… — Jodi Picoult
You should have left him to wander,â€ Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. â€œWould you?â€ he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the… — John Flanagan
Why could we say more to each other when it counted less? — Laura Dave
. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or… — Katherine Paterson

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