Counted Quotes

317 quotes by 283 authors

We counted 19 missiles that landed in a small area of Baghdad. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of… — Robert Kanigel
You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it… — Saint Basil
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the… — Peter Singer
It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here… — Carl Jung
Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed. — Muhammad Iqbal
Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me. — Charitie Lees Smith
We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting… — Marcy Kaptur
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend… — Adolf Hitler
I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is...The arrangements were mine. They were little… — Linda Ronstadt
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… — Walter Lippmann
I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened. — Audrey Hepburn
And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones… — Richard Attenborough
I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be… — Newt Gingrich
There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take… — Damon Galgut
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed… — Lewis H. Lapham
I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been,… — Alice Sebold
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of… — James Truslow Adams

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