Account Quotes

• Account no man happy till he dies.

  

  Euripides
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Account

• You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Choose
  • Opinions
  • Mine

• Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Pain
  • Learn
  • Account

• It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Nature
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.

  

  Christian Harrison
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity
  • Priority

• If you eat food or produce, you should take into account where that food comes from.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Food
  • Account

• It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.

  

  Eliza Acton
  • Food
  • Economy
  • Article

• Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

  

  Euripides
  • Angry
  • Course
  • Account

• Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

  

  Nouriel Roubini
  • End
  • Account
  • Empire

• It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Suffering
  • Self
  • Spiritual World

• I'm trying to do the best I can and all I can. I will do that. I'm going to have to survive on my own account.

  

  David Steele Fine Young Cannibals
  • Best
  • Survive
  • Account

• Success is rarely about having the best, the most, or the cheapest features in a product. Instead, it is almost always about knowing what matters to your sponsor in a client or partner account and delivering on that.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Best
  • Always
  • About

• Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Thinking
  • Wine
  • Drink

• I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • People
  • Die
  • Price

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