Counts Quotes - page 2

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight. (Bernhard Langer)
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. View quote
Frank Robinson
You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result. View quote
Richard Widmark
As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations. View quote
Tim Bishop
It's the story that counts. View quote
Vincente Minnelli
I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. View quote
Daniel Handler
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts. View quote
Emil Cioran
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations” that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind. View quote
Georges Bataille
I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the numbers. The average person walks 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. I walk 10,000 steps a day. I have lost a lot of weight as a result. View quote
Roger Ebert
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
In this universe, experience counts. (John Scalzi)
Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is Do you staying power. View quote
Noël Coward
So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts! View quote
Dr. Seuss
Here is a list of fearful things: The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings, The rabid bite of the dog's of war, The voice of one who went before. But most of all the mirror's gaze, which counts us out our numbered days. View quote
Clive Barker
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us - what convictions, what courage, what faith - win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Only the present counts. View quote
Georges Bernanos
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. View quote
William Bernbach
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value. View quote
Walter Pater
In life it is training rather than birth which counts. View quote
Ihara Saikaku
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America. (Edward R. Murrow)
The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Everything that happens before Death is what counts. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but its the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning. View quote
Sandra Bullock
What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. View quote
Carl Sagan