Counting Quotes (page 13)

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• worth
• counted
• beggar

They are but beggars that can count their worth. William Shakespeare

• book
• real
• sorrow

In the real worldas in dreamsnothing is quitewhat it seems.-The Book of Counted Sorrows Dean Koontz

• greatness
• children
• life

Life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children? all of our children? a better world. Even if it's difficult. Even if the work seems great. Even if we don't get very far in our lifetime. Barack Obama

• honorably
• talked
• talks

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• vote
• votes
• count

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. Joseph Stalin

• great
• little
• literature

Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest? disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. Gustave Flaubert

• him
• hair
• giving

What have the nibblers ever done for you?"The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from her face, giving him a clear shot of her eyes. They were asking for an answer. Needing to know if she could count on him."They saved your life," he said. And for just a moment, Luxa's face softened and she smiled. Suzanne Collins

• loss
• mother
• worship

My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul. Salvador Dali

• fear
• facts
• counts

What counted was not the facts but the fears. Max Lerner

• happy
• manly
• mans

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• reading
• haven
• beginnings

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. Virginia Woolf

• evening
• life
• good

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life. Portia de Rossi

• she
• new
• time

These were the first moments of a new existence, a strange one in which she already glimpsed the element of timelessness that would surround her. The person who frantically has been counting the seconds on his way to catch a train, and arrives panting just as it disappears, knowing the next one is not due for many hours, feels something of the same sudden surfeit of time, the momentary sensation of drowning in an element become too rich and too plentiful to be consumed, and thereby made... Paul Bowles

• team
• world
• little

You count the years until you get a varsity jersey, then you're a hero, an idol, a cocky bastard because in this town you can do no wrong. You win and win and you're the king of your own little world, then poof, it's gone. You play your last game and everybody cries. You can't believe it's over. Then another team comes right behind you and you're forgotten. John Grisham

• lost
• count
• counts

It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts. Harold Russell