As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.

Opal Tometi

History Without Wit

There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I'm left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down.

Alex O'Loughlin

Time Alone Yin

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

Ann Coulter

Art Amazing UN

The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.

Blase J. Cupich

Society History Health

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Brit Hume

Men Who Were

I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

Carol Burnett

Good Ways Way

No one looks forward to a recount.

Charles B. Rangel

War UN T

The whole thing with the Rick James story sketch and the Prince story sketch - I recounted my past, you know? - and that's what I was doing. It's not like I sat down and said I want to come up with a great story about Rick James. That stuff really happened.

Charlie Murphy

Great You Wit

'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and with John Cena.

Doug Liman

Experience Wit Were

The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.

Edmund Morgan

Men History Car

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Via Us UN

Coalwood, West Virginia, is the little coal-mining town where I grew up, and it was there that five other teenage boys and I famously built and launched rockets. I recounted this story in my memoir, 'Rocket Boys.'

Homer Hickam

Teen Famous Age

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

Hugh Mackay

UN Tin Ten

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.

Isabel Gillies

Work Family Would

The only politician in my family was my grandfather's grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan. 5, 1917, because he lost the recount. So he was mayor of Winnipeg for four days.

Jake Tapper

Family Win Who

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

James Altucher

Success Business Us

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Venture Vent UN

There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from 'The Guardian' fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths.

Jo Becker

Truth Fear Age

I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

Joan Blades

Way UN T

In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

John Ensign

Time Age You

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

Josh McDowell

Time Wrote Whom

As you can see from 'Symptomatic of a relationship gone sour' I have definitely done my fair share of sinning, so I just want to recount my story and how I have come to terms with myself.

Julia Fox

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

Katherine Harris

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.

Katherine Harris

Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.

Kenneth Blackwell

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Kenneth Blackwell

It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.

Kevin Spacey

The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.

Kinky Friedman

I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

Laura Dern

The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

Manny Farber

I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.

Margo Jefferson

Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

Martha Beck

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Michael Shermer

I often feel like everything is moving so fast that I can barely recount where I was the day before, what I had for breakfast, or how great my workout was.

Natalya Neidhart

I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back again. So I got this idea for a 'constellation' novel recounting experiences that were separate from each other but could still be connected on different psychological, physical and political levels.

Olga Tokarczuk

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that I pulled out of my head, that I invented.

Olga Tokarczuk

As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.

Opal Tometi

Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.

Pamela Meyer

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Paul Tournier

After the fighting is done, and even when it's still happening, apologies are often needed for the recounting of bare facts. Sometimes bare facts feel unpatriotic.

Phil Klay

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

Pierre Corneille

I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.

Robert Torricelli

The recount in Michigan is over. The election is over. Our next president is Donald J. Trump. Winning once was nice. But winning twice was huge.

Ronna McDaniel

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.

Rudolph A. Marcus

We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise of Rome. And that is one of the problems, of course, in recounting her life. She's only ever apparent to us when there is a Roman in the room, or when her story intersects with the rise of Rome.

Stacy Schiff

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

Tatum O'Neal

My parents were of the generation that lived through the Second World War, but I grew up listening to my mother recounting her dad's tales about his terrible experiences during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and later on the Western Front.

Tony Bradman