Recount Quotes

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If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a… — Paul Copan
Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a… — Kristen Johnston
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very… — Madeleine L'Engle
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who… — Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that… — Steven Saylor
Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her… — Julie Powell
It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is… — Elizabeth Kenny
Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure… — Ramona Koval
RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded. — Ambrose Bierce
In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable… — John Ensign
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking… — John Milton
As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he… — Criss Jami
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the… — Edvard Munch
The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount. — Kinky Friedman
The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount. — Ann Coulter
We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were… — Brit Hume
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. — Jean-Paul Sartre
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience. — Michael Shermer
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This… — Jean-Paul Sartre

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