Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

What counts is what you do with your money not where it came from.

After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.

But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that because each record counts. And you should make it count.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Baseball is like driving it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners how they look how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart consumerist choices about their own health care.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts clearing Michael of all charges mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts neglecting children destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience heightened creativity or exceptional performance by athletes and artists we harbor a greater life than we know.

After all sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words keeping the asset whole rather than undermining your natural capital.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers the lion never counts the herd that are about him nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.