Counting Quotes (page 6)

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• inspirational
• life
• your life

What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years. Adlai E. Stevenson

• words
• power
• manly

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. Leo Rosten

• personality
• good
• personal

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way. Nick Hornby

• hair
• miracle
• bed

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle. Henry Miller

• time
• may
• money

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• life
• thoughts
• she

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. Terry Brooks

• moments
• days
• calendar

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. Benjamin Disraeli

• art
• time
• value

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 themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love. Jeanette Winterson

• humanity
• independent
• computers

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. Douglas Adams

• love
• night
• loses

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love. Jodi Picoult

• personality
• personal
• quality

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has... Gilbert K. Chesterton

• connecting
• calorie
• connects

Calories don't count if they're connected to a celbration. Everyone knows this. Janet Evanovich

• god
• respect
• help

Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help Miyamoto Musashi

• wise
• men
• age

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake. Hans Christian Andersen

• learning
• experience
• change

Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (Sajh) said, seeking an answer.Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing. Kate Mosse