Poetry gave me the life I live: many of the people I love, the places I've traveled, the things I've learned about myself, the job I hold. And I can't count the times I've been on the precipice of making a - shall we say "adventurous"? - decision and thought, "But think of the poem I'll get out of this. " Most of them have paid off.
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.
I can count my friends on one hand.
But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?
In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.
It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?
Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.
I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.
Without faith we count down the days to death, with it we count up the days till happiness
You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.
Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.
You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
People who don't count won't count.
I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.
If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.
Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him. The other half were men and didn't count. -Tara on Ford
I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.
I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.