Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Steinem

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

Michael Eisner

The reaction to (the film) has been extraordinary (in previews), ... Don't count on Lion King but we think it will be a successful movie. I am very encouraged.

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

Dan Pallotta

I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

We can't logistically supply 19 counties with water and essential supplies.

Scott Turow

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

Malala Yousafzai

In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.

We hadn't counted on, I guess, the over-enthusiasm of people.

David Cunliffe

We have the highest diaspora per capita of any developed country except for Ireland. We want to get back the quarter that weren't sure.

Haley Barbour

We don't know how many fatalities there are. The official count is really meaningless.

Abigail Adams

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

Abdoulaye Wade

I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future.

Adam Smith

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

Adam Michnik

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

Jamie McMurray

Yeah, you somewhat hoped that things would get worked out, but I wasn't counting on it.

Brian Cashman

When I saw that Octavio had surgery I started counting the dates because I knew he was a free agent. I thought there might be something there.

Jim Haslett

We never had to do a silent count at home.

We never count ourselves out with as many times as we've come back in the third period.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is reasonable. And by the fact that they bring capital into these countries, they bring about a trend toward higher wage rates.

While we had to count an error, I thought the team fought really hard and stayed the course tonight. Any time you compete, you want to win but tonight we had other goals as well and I think we helped ourselves a lot in meeting those.

We've been going out and helping other counties that don't have collections and need this service.

Unlike a merchant association, this is not a voluntary organization. We need to be able to count on funding year after year. ... If you want something, you have to fund it yourself.

We got the three points and that's what counts at this time of the season.

We can always count on (Holloway) to get rebounds and tonight she got those rebounds and turned them into points.

We had to punish this industry in such a way that everybody in this country and everybody in the world would recognize that they had paid a higher price than any other,

We have a good group of returning juniors and they are all doing a good job. I'm counting on all the juniors.

We wanted to highlight 'in the Red Zone' to reward kids for working hard and having the courage for strength where it counts at the point of sweat.

We've lost some good teachers, because we've had highly qualified teachers and other counties have sought them out,

Robert Johnson

With the way some of these guys are playing and how hard they worked this summer, I know I can count on them,

Robert Grosseteste

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

Paul Gillmor

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

Mike Holmgren

The only statistic that counts is the score at the end of the game. Give credit to the Steelers. They're a tough team to play against.

With only 12 players on a team and to have lost six of those players - that leaves some big shoes to fill. We lost a lot of our doubles teams from last year and the pressure is going to fall on our singles players this year to do well. We won't be able to count on our doubles teams to sweep.