quotes about Accounts
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
-- Alexander SmithSource : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43
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I don't have a Twitter account.
-- Anna ChlumskySource : "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.
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Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
-- Bob Schieffer -
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
-- Charles Darwin -
You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.
-- Charles Ferguson -
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An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.
-- D. J. Enright -
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
-- Dan BrownSource : Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”
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I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
-- Daniel DefoeSource : Daniel Defoe (2007). “Moll Flanders”, p.167, Book Jungle
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The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
-- David Bentley HartSource : David Bentley Hart (2013). “The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss”, p.80, Yale University Press
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I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.
-- Dev PatelSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
-- Djuna BarnesSource : "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes, (Ch. 6), 1936.
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Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.
-- Edmund Clarence Stedman -
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There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
-- Gene Brown -
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
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I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
-- J. C. Ryle -
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.
-- Jack LaLanne -
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In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.
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Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do.
-- James FentonSource : 1983 'Children in Exile'.
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I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.
-- Jean-Francois Cope -
Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60.
-- Joe Manganiello -
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Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development.
-- John Engler -
All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.
-- John Mulaney -
When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.
-- Joseph ParkerSource : Joseph Parker (1885). “The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture”
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
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Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.
-- Josephine Tey -
I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
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 Bujold -
The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account.
-- LordeSource : Lorde @lordemusic, twitter.com. April 3, 2014.
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We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.
-- Loretta Chase -
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
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The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you.
-- Margery Wilson -
I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.
-- Marie Osmond -
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One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome
-- Murasaki ShikibuSource : Murasaki Shikibu (1935). “Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams”
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Let your name be worth more than your bank account
-- Ray Lewis -
If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.
-- Robert Cailliau -
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
-- Robert SmithsonSource : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press
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It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,
-- Solomon NorthupSource : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress
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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.
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Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.
-- Umar -
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Take account of yourselves before you are brought to account.
-- Umar -
BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.
-- William Feather -
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 3, 1989.
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It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
-- William Whewell -
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The Internet kept the joke going. Abevigoda.com was devoted to updating the actor's status, as was @AbeVigodaUpdate, a Twitter account.
-- Audie Cornish -
A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.
-- Ernest SosaSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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I have an Instagram [account] but I don't feel a lot of love with it.
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The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.
-- John H. WaltonSource : John H. Walton (2010). “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”, p.85, InterVarsity Press
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When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers’ accounts.
-- Mervyn King -
Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.
-- David BrewsterSource : DAVID BREWSTER (1856). “MORE WORLDS THAN ONE THE CREED OF THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE HOPE OF THE CHRISTIAN”, p.132
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By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!
-- Elijah Muhammad -
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Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.
-- Romano Prodi -
Fully repeal Obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts. And we can do that.
-- Hari SreenivasanSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.
-- John H. VincentSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 361, 1895.