Account Quotes - page 4

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)
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble. It's the only area of our lives where someone can win points for saying, "There's nothing that you can do to change my mind and I'm taking no state of the world ultimately into account in believing what I believe. There's nothing to change about the world that would cause me to revise my beliefs." View quote
Sam Harris
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. View quote
Guy Debord
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race. View quote
Jack Vance
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date. View quote
Jeffrey Archer
With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U. S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested. View quote
Lawrence Summers
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think. View quote
Leo Burnett
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born. (William Shenstone)
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. View quote
Robert Sheckley
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. View quote
George Orwell
The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging up and a substantial current account deficit...people understandably feel more confident about their future than they've done for decades, but as a result they have been borrowing more and saving less...coming on top of a massive income investment boom, it's all been just a bit too much of a good thing. View quote
Nigel Lawson
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. View quote
Paula Poundstone
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess. View quote
Paula Poundstone
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe. View quote
Friedrich Engels
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected. View quote
Thomas Nagel
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go. View quote
Agatha Christie
Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching. (Cesar Chavez)
A rich bank account did not mean rich ideas; in fact, often the reverse. The bigger your ass, the more you want to cover it. View quote
Gregory Benford
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged. View quote
Jane Austen
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. View quote
Publilius Syrus
If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines-the basis of life-developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach. View quote
Michael Behe