Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.
Don't never drop your head. Don't never feel like you counted out.
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.
Sure, there was no guarantee any of these things would actually happen as he envisioned. But maybe that wasn?t the point.It was the planning that counted, whether it ever came to fruition or not.
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.
Mike Hodge is someone I've counted on for strong, steady leadership from the very start of my union service, and he has never failed to deliver.
We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.
I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.
The British theatre and establishment is so hard to penetrate, and there are so many talented people involved in it. So, to be counted among some of those actresses... It doesn't get better than that.
I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them.
I am no more solely counted for comic or villain roles, which comes more often in mainstream, masala films.
Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.
You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I've been a guy that everyone has counted out over the years as an undersized four-man. I've always been doubted.
The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
The Red Bulls have done a good job of challenging me to be a leader, not just be a part of team and score goals, but be someone to be counted on.
But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow
There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.
When I was a kid, one thing I counted on was rushing home from church to catch the start of the race. There's something really awesome about that routine.
Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.
Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.
I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
I hope I can always be counted on to get a hit or get a guy in-to be an even keel in the lineup.
The reality is that I've been counted out for a very long time and people continue to underestimate me and I continue to overperform.
Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.
I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.
Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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.
The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.
American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.
A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.
For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.
Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.
I never counted how many tattoos I have, but I started getting them at a really young age, so most of my big ones are cover-ups.
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations
All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate
them.
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