Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations
Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.
In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.
I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.
The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.
The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.
Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.
I like to be counted on.
A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.
We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.
When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.
Inaction counted as a choice.
Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!
The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted by thousands and the last by millions, is neither fit for, nor capable of, indefinite duration: and the possibility of changing this system for one of combination without dependence, and unity of interest instead of organized hostility, depends altogether upon the future developments of the Partnership principle.