Counts Quotes

Every drop in the ocean counts.

It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.

Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

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.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

It's the story that counts.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.