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As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.
~ Katharine Viner
Only thing that counts are ideas. Behind ideas are [moral] principles. Either one is serious or one is not. Must be prepared to make sacrifices. I'm not a liberal.
~ Susan Sontag
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
~ Joss Whedon
Intentions count in your actions.
~ Abu Bakr
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
~ Evita Peron
it doesn't count, like time spent in Brooklyn
~ Heinlein Robert A.
1.Count Drac: It's okay. We all get stomach aches, Mr. Bigfoot. 2. Count Drac: The sand, Murray, the sand! Always with the sand.
~ Sony Pictures
I have 11 sisters and 6 brothers.
~ Carlos Mencia
The main agent of heat transfer on Earth is what is known as thermohaline circulation, which originates in slow, deep currents far below the surface—a process first detected by the scientist-adventurer Count von Rumford in 1797.
~ Bill Bryson
we should have a definitive total for insects in a little over fifteen thousand years.
~ Bill Bryson
The number of chemicals in use in the developed world was more than 82,000 at the last count, and most of them – 86 per cent, according to one estimate – have never been tested for their effects on humans.
~ Bill Bryson
Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of your friends.
~ Bram Stoker
Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be that he shall get there before us. I propose that we add Winchesters to our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort around.
~ Bram Stoker
She said, Promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans formed for the campaign against the Count. Not by word, or inference, or implication, not at any time whilst this remains to me!
~ Bram Stoker
We men are all in a fever of excitement, except Harker, who is calm. His hands are cold as ice, and an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife which he now always carries with him. It will be a bad lookout for the Count if the edge of that Kukri ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!
~ Bram Stoker
I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.
~ Bram Stoker
I said interrogatively:— "Count Dracula?" He bowed in a courtly way as he replied:— "I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.
~ Bram Stoker
There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count's eyes gleamed, and he said:— "Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!
~ Bram Stoker
When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak further. It was so near the time of starting that I had no time to ask anyone else, for it was all very mysterious and not by any means comforting.
~ Bram Stoker
I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., I must ask the Count all about them.)
~ Bram Stoker
It's abilities, not the disabilities, that count. —Peter Drucker
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
You can count my interviews this season on one hand, so maybe when I do speak, people want to turn it into something sensational.
~ Robin Van Persie
In fact, it has been proposed that absolute neuron count, regardless of brain or body size, best predicts a species' mental powers.61
~ Frans de Waal
This village belongs to the Castle, and whoever lives here or passes the night here does so in a manner of speaking in the Castle itself. Nobody may do that without the Count's permission.
~ Franz Kafka