Famous quotes containing the words count and/or elect:
“I wish to say that, in so far as I can, I hope to promote the enactment of further legislation of this character.
Theres nothing else one can say about meIm superfluous, in a word. A supernumerarythats all. Nature evidently didnt count on my appearance, and consequently treated me as an unexpected, uninvited guest.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“It is too latethe world is too dark for any thought ahead. Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!”
—Clara Barton (18211912)
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