#counts

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#government #most #prevent #rather #than

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#biased #both #crimes #data #dead

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

— Ovid

#counts #everywhere #fortune #friendships #honors

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#counts #dog #fight #necessarily #size

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. ↗

— Venus Williams

#anything #big #counts #even #everything

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts. ↗

— Debra Winger

#every #i #just #live #moment

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined. ↗

— Martin Yan

#burnt #counts #dish #even #how

Size counts. That's all. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#size

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. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#almost #always #back #behavior #characteristic

We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30. ↗

— Paul Graham

#because #beer #before #cases #far