Accounts Quotes
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Truth takes no account of centuries.
William Wordsworth -
I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.
William A. Rusher
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One of the biggest challenges for us is that people have different accounts. People say different things happened at different times, and when you're trying to sort through all that, how do you decide what's right?
Andrew Aydin -
Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.
David Brewster -
At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.
Isaac Watts -
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.
William Cecil Dampier -
Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
Isaac Watts -
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
Carolyn Maloney
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I'll just let the hair speak for itself. It's got a Twitter account, so it actually does more speaking than I probably do on Twitter.
Milos Raonic -
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
Herbert Spencer -
ShapeShift has no user accounts, signup, or registration process whatsoever. But it's faster and far more convenient than traditional exchanges.
Erik Voorhees -
The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.
Paul Goldberger -
Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their parents and of the taxpayers). If students happen to learn anything useful while enrolled, that's good, but if not, as long as they've paid their bills, that's not the university's problem.
George Leef -
By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.
Mike McGavick
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Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge -
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
Robert Walpole -
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
William Makepeace Thackeray -
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.
Paul Davies -
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
Catharine MacKinnon -
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
Raymond Aron
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The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.
Vladimir Putin -
A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.
Seth Godin -
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
Nick Clooney -
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