Accounts Quotes

• 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

• We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.

  

  Cary Sherman
  • Values
  • Achievement
  • Program

• The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Great
  • Kids

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

  

  Alexander Sutherland Neill
  • Children
  • Family
  • Absence

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Reality
  • Tendencies
  • Objectives

• 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

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

  

  Umar
  • Islamic
  • Accounts
  • Hereafter

• 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

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

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Accounts
  • Desserts

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

  

  Virginia Foxx
  • Giving
  • Growth
  • Accounts

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving than we do to ask Him. As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Creation
  • Demand
  • Starving

• 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

• Then, the specialists themselves, probably believe that in the course of EU expansion, for example, some elements concerning the readiness of some economies to enter the Eurozone have not been taken into account.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Economy

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