The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.
Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, 'Whale Rider' had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.
We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.
The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.
Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.
I made myself unhappy measuring my love against a given norm. The truth is, we make ourselves happy in among a wide variety of loves; all count.
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
If you give him a 3-point shot, you might as well count it. I'd rather have Steph Curry beat me 14 points and 14 assists than let him get 40. Because his 40 is just so loud. And it's because of those 3s.
I laugh a lot and count my blessings.
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'
As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know I am lucky to have a book tour at all.
And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.
American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.
