Accounts Quotes - Page 29

• A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.

  George Combe

  Sleep, Exercise, Night

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• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  Vernon Lee

  Civilization, Barbarians, Use

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”

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• The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

  Ruth Rendell

  Psychology, Human Nature, Trouble

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• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Winning, Circles, Hints

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• If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience. That's why it's not like a table or a car or something. I think that that might even be hard for people because most of our visual experiences are of tables. It has no business being anything else but a table. But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not-you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question.

  Richard Tuttle

  Thinking, Artist, Opposites

  "Drawing & Exhibitions: Richard Tuttle". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2005.

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• I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.

  Koki Hirota

  Fashion, Army, Blood

  "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing". Book by Robert Sabella, p. 56, 2002.

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• Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

  E. M. Delafield

  Believe, Fate, Immortality

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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• Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

  Anita Shreve

  Family, Memories, School

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• Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.

  Giacomo Balla

  Running, Horse, Moving

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• I often get asked by people 'Is your Twitter real?' and things of that nature. I'm never sure how to respond to that. My Twitter account is completely 'real' in that everything I tweet is something I have earnestly thought or something that has actually happened to me.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Real, People, Tweet

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I often tweet things that I would feel too horrified/embarrassed/ashamed to say to a friend or loved one, even though most of my friends and loved ones read my Twitter account.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Loved Ones, Tweet, Ashamed

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Editing, Self, Kind

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• You have to trust your instincts and hope the fans like what you do, but you don't gut check with the fans. If we're going to make a series, people are going to have a lot of opinions and if there's one overwhelming majority or one thing you continuously hear repeated from the fans, you certainly take that into account going into next season.

  Eli Roth

  People, Next, Majority

  "MIPTV: Eli Roth on His Netflix TV Debut 'Hemlock Grove' (Q&A)". Interview with Rhonda Richford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Other Cultures, Giving

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Two, Years

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The place that does
  Contain my books, the best companions, is
  To me a glorious court, where hourly I
  Converse with the, old sages and philosophers;
  And sometimes for variety, I confer
  With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
  Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
  Unto a strict account; and in my fancy,
  Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.

  John William Fletcher

  Kings, Book, Victory

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• Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

  Susan Cheever

  Dog, Teacher, Home

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• This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accounts if you can, because high balances will hurt your credit rating. And avoid opening any other accounts before the loan you're pursuing is closed.

  Craig Watts

  Hurt, Missing, Balance

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• The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Book, Race, Iliad

  "Johannes Gutenberg printed playing cards the same year as his famous Bible (1440). The cards from Gutenberg's press were Tarot cards, from which the modern deck is derived. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.

  Raymond Geuss

  Perspective, Finals, Viewpoints

  "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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• I know the way, what I have to walk. I know the spiritual power, world-creating energy, what I have to lay its account with. There's no doubt: we come out into a better still world part and we will be delighted in unfailing fairnesses.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Spiritual, Creating, Doubt

  "The Otherworld". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,

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• Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.

  Harold Percival

  Thinking, Rooms, World

  Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.48, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Country, Mind, May

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.60

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• When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f--king bank account what I do,'

  Kim Kardashian

  Kings, Want, Bank Accounts

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• Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Flower, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3037, Delphi Classics

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