Recount Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
— Kinky Friedman
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The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
— Ann Coulter
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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
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
— Michael Shermer
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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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