If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
Over the years since then though, I couldn't even begin to try and count all the mistakes I've made but also, all the joys I've found while traveling on the road. So in living this kind of lifestyle day in and day out for that many years you learn. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn a lot about how people should be treated and how they should treat each other. For the most part, I've really learned patience, temperament and fairness all around.
People who don't count won't count.
You know, we've been married for 22 years. . . and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time. ' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.
Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.
We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.
The stories coming out of Iraq everyday - the violence, the chaos, the deaths of Americans, the deaths of Iraqis. . . Of course the deaths of Iraqis are not played up as much. But when they count the corpses they see women and children. We are constantly killing the people who are suspected of something. Now, in the United States or under any decent system of justice, you don't kill people on suspicion. That's what you do when you bomb a house because there are suspected leaders there. But we've been doing that again and again and the result has been a toll of thousands of civilians.
A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.