Accounts Quotes

• The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Strange
  • Adequate

• Take account of yourselves before you are brought to account.

  

  Umar
  • Islamic
  • Accounts
  • Hereafter

• Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Men
  • War
  • Goodness

• Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Opinion
  • Path
  • Greek

• An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Moments
  • Purpose
  • Earnest

• Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw himself into the crater of Mount Etna so that he might vanish from the world completely and thus lead men to believe he had achieved apotheosis. Unfortunately the volcano defeated his design by throwing out one of the philosopher's sandals.

  

  Empedocles
  • Death
  • Accounts
  • Empedocle`s

• She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Smelled
  • Looked Like
  • Old Money

• We've been talking a lot about the desserts ? private accounts. But not the spinach.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Accounts
  • Desserts

• There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Reality
  • Tendencies
  • Objectives

• His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Invention
  • Fidelity
  • Factual

• My mum and dad have made Twitter accounts, and they will send me links if there is a bad review and tell me they'll find out where the reviewer lives.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Dad
  • Mum
  • Review

• I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • People
  • Internet
  • Computer

• If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Excuse

• It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Deals
  • Needed

• The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Brain
  • Evolution

• We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Literature
  • Seven
  • Biographies

• Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.

  

  Warren G. Bennis
  • Emotional
  • Intelligence
  • Competence

• I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

  

  Virginia Foxx
  • Giving
  • Growth
  • Accounts

• But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.

  

  William Cecil Dampier
  • Science
  • Riddle
  • Defiance

• Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

  

  Evangelos Venizelos
  • Europe
  • Members
  • Greece

• Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • World
  • Form
  • Elements

• Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Perspective
  • Security
  • Building

• Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Stories
  • Certain
  • Broke

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