Accounts Quotes - Page 28

• There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Thinking, Quality

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• The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Civilization, White

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• One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

  Susan Sontag

  Hypocrisy, Community, Roles

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.18, Univ of California Press

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• A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Powerful, Generous Spirit

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.45, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Running, Kings, Men

  James Sheridan Knowles (1856). “Dramatic Works: Caius Gracchus. Virginius. William Tell. Alfred the Great; or, The patriot king. The hunchback. The wife; a tale of Mantua. The beggar of Bethnal Green. The daughter”, p.305

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• As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Religious, Sea, Law

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.323, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offense against God, not against man:To God, therefore, not to man, must an account of it be rendered.

  James Madison

  Believe, Men, Mind

  James Madison (1819). “Religious Freedom. A memorial and remonstrance drawn by ... J. Madison, late President of the United States, ... against the general assessment in “a Bill establishing provision for the teachers of the Christian religion, presented to the General Assembly of Virginia, at the session of 1785. Extracted from Benedict's History of the Baptist Denomination.””, p.7

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• Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it can not be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to ME, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Communication, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.2

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• What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Stories, Narrative

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.75, Wildside Press LLC

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• Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there is no problem accepting reports even of extraordinary things that we can still verify as occurring today, like faith healings and exorcisms. However you may wish to account for them, you can go to certain meetings and see scenes somewhat resembling those in the gospels. So it is by no means a matter of rejecting all miracle stories on principle. Biblical critics are not like the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

  Robert M. Price

  Healing, Mean, Biblical

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• The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

  Rex Stout

  Husband, Food, Cooking

  Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.78, Crimeline

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• There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

  E. W. Howe

  Party, Food, People

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• That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

  Jessica Origliasso

  Artist, Self, Perspective

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• To me, YouTube isn't just, 'Watch my videos!' It's, 'Let's have a conversation and get involved in each other's lives.' I want to make [my fans] feel like they have a reason to have a YouTube account because they can comment and have a voice.

  Shane Dawson

  Voice, Fans, Watches

  Source: uwire.com

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• Anybody who is a professional athlete who has a social media account on any of the networks, when they sign up for that account, they subject themselves to all of the criticisms and all of the praises that may or may not be out there. So you can't get on social media and complain about the people because that's what you know you're dealing with. You have to hear it. You don't have to respond. Me personally, I don't respond to the negativity. It's gonna be there. I read it. It keeps me grounded.

  George Wilson

  Athlete, Media, People

  KSK Interview, uproxx.com. October 29, 2012.

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• Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heaven, Soul, Overcoming

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.271

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• Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.

  May Agnes Fleming

  United States, Dare, Inquisitive

  May Agnes Fleming (2014). “The Baronet's Bride: Or a Woman's Vengeance”, p.178, The Floating Press

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• We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates or walls high enough. There are no bank accounts large enough to buy you and your family and your friends protection from the fear and hunger of those left behind or to isolate you from the consequences of growing social inequities. We are all in this boat together. And the fact that there isn't a hole at your end of the boat doesn't mean you are safe.

  Arianna Huffington

  Wall, Mean, Opportunity

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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• As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Issues, People, Adequate

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sacrifice, Self, Shrines

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• it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Taken, Loss, Preparation

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.

  John Balguy

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.

  Vincent Voiture

  Believe, Men, Quality

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• People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.

  Henry Mackenzie

  People, Giving, Heaven

  Henry Mackenzie (1820). “The man of feeling: and Julia de Roubigné, a tale”, p.18

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• People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

  Wyndham Lewis

  People, Judgement, Overwhelmed

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