Accounts Quotes - Page 36

• In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

  Raymond Aron

  Way, Settling, Marxist

  1971 Politics and History.

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• I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.

  John Eccles

  Believe, Brain, Inheritance

  "Facing Reality : Philosophical Adventures by a Brain Scientist" by John Carew Eccles, (p. 83), 1970.

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• We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Promise, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.204, Penguin

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• We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Quality, May

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.52, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Time, Men

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• To the extent that your work takes into account the needs of the world, it will be menaingful; to the extent that through it you express your unique talents, it will be joyful.

  Laurence Boldt

  Unique, World, Needs

  Laurence G. Boldt (2004). “How to Find the Work You Love”, p.22, Penguin

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• Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mean, Fancy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

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• Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Kids, College

  "Plutonomy and the Precariat" by Noam Chomsky, www.thenation.com. May 8, 2012.

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• By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

  Noam Chomsky

  Haiti, Figures

  "Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East". Interview with Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2011.

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• This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Sound, Different

  "Interview with Paulo Coelho, UN Messenger of Peace". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. December 22, 2010.

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• Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving, Study, Individual

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• Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jesus, Ascension, Resurrection

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• A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

  Stephen King

  Men, Purpose, Bank Accounts

  Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 1: A Novel”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

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• An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.

  Dennis Covington

  Fall, Believe, Writing

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• The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing, Historical, Secret

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.70, Penguin

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• It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fall, Men, Principles

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.114

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• Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Accomplishment, Luck, Tag

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Puppet Masters”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Country, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.295

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• There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

  Albert Pike

  World, Notes, Greater

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Hands, Suffering

  Edgar Allan Poe, Harry Clarke (2008). “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Children, Home, Mean

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

  Walter Cronkite

  Winning, Battle, Pay

  "Free the Air Waves!" by Walter Cronkite, www.gothamgazette.com. November 4, 2002.

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• Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values. But making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Odds, People, Example

  "Torture report: U.S. faces harsh realities" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2014.

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• We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Giving, Use, Lasts

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• Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Swimming, Animal, Agriculture

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