When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Friends don't count the cost of favors.
The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent.
It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
I don't like to sit and count my money and be a "happy entrepreneur".
I'm convinced Apple has been doing the coreclock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.
Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?
I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.
I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.
Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.
Not to think of yourself as someone who did not count -- Festival of the Souls.
But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God. -Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.
Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.
The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy.
Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.
The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.