Famous Quotes & Sayings

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. (Proverbs 17:28)

Florida is one example of how partisan politics interfere with having folks' votes being counted accurately. Americans have taken elections for granted for far too long.

Everybody counted us out of even getting here. But the girls fought, they played hard, and now, we have a championship.

As soon as this vote was counted and we fell short ..., we were on the phone with (House) members to let them know the governor wants this bill.

I've counted more than 20 people killed today.

When it counted the most, that's when we started losing.

We had a couple goals disallowed. One they said didn't cross the line and the other they said the whistle blew. On their fourth goal, the net was off and they counted it.

We're usually a lot better than that from the floor and from the line. I don't know what it was tonight, but we were fortunate to make enough of them at the end when it counted most.

At one point we counted 300 people standing on the reef. It didn't occur to us people would stand on the reef.

Tom Daschle

There's nothing unusual about the way the votes are being counted in Florida right now.

I mean, really. I knew they counted on our fans, but wow.

Robert Higgs

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

Ted Cruz

I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.

I haven't counted how many times I've gone. Easily 40 or so times.

It's a long way down. I counted five seconds before it hit the water.

Luis Figo

I never counted on a moment like this one. I played in a team which made it possible for me to be here.

I'm not sure we did anything well tonight but compete. We hung in there and kept playing and kept playing. We played good defense all night and never gave up. Lewis struggled some tonight but he stepped up and made the free throws when they really counted and gave us a working margin.

Cameron Russell

In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white.

If the line should happen to get real long because of long lines, you could then use the optical scan. It goes into a secure box. It gets counted at the end of the night. And this would only be for the May election.

Jason Kidd

I rather it happen now than Game 7 in the Finals or an important game. I am not trying to downgrade this game as not important but those type of things happen. We have counted on Vince in the two years that he has been here and he has room for error.

Cheshire played very good zone defense. And we didn't play real well. It was a very big win for them and a tough loss for us because it was a cross-over game that counted in the league playoff standings.

Brian Giles

I know a lot of people are talking about our record. But I'm proud of what we've done. I think we've accomplished a lot. It's awesome. People counted us out every week and here we still are.

I hope I got counted for the assist. Good thing Katie was there, a nice little finger roll.

Aubrey Peeples

I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160... but to pick one: muffins. They're imposters. They think they're breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.

We counted up 22 lay-ins that were just missed. We can't explain it.

We counted several falls on the beam. We don't want to count any falls next week.

We counted our noses, and all are accounted for,

We counted our blessings. They're making a late season surge, and playing good hockey, they're going to be tough in the playoffs.

We counted on this happening, because research elsewhere had indicated it should happen, ... But it's nevertheless a pleasant surprise to find that what was predicted has come true so soon.

We counted at least 60 dead on Tuesday, and on Wednesday no less than 20.

The success that he's already had, there's not a lot of freshmen that can do that and be counted on on the weekend. It's different to pitch on Tuesday than it is to pitch on the weekend where there's more pressure involved and more at stake and better competition. To do what he's done so far is pretty impressive.

The guys were very good and they had to be. When it counted ? with the game on the line ? they played a real smart game. There was a lot of good growth tonight.