Counted Quotes

317 quotes by 270 authors

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As… — Esther Williams
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There… — Robert A. Heinlein
Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact… — Joan Didion
Sighing, she gave a brief nod. â€œI was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And… — James Patterson
Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
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
For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled… — Hillary Clinton
Inaction counted as a choice. — Dean Koontz
And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted,… — Amiri Baraka
That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to… — Adrienne Rich
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in… — Thomas Wolfe
We'll be there, Harry," said Ron "What?" "At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going." "No-"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you,… — Christina Rossetti
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the worldâ€™s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to… — Anne Lamott
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for… — Jeanette Winterson
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. — Adrienne Rich
Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this â€œsomethingâ€ cannot be seen or heard or numbered… — Robert Fulghum

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