Accounts Quotes - Page 39

• Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'

  Ayn Rand

  Political, Watches, Paper

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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• I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, People, Giving

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Science, Atheism

  'Resuscitatio' (1657) 'Proposition touching Amendment of Laws'

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• The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

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• Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and conscience friends. Do with your hearts as you do with your watches, wind them up every morning by prayer, and at night examine whether your hearts have gone true all that day, whether the wheels of your affections have moved swiftly toward heaven.

  Thomas Watson

  Spiritual, Morning, Prayer

  Thomas Watson (1741). “A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy Six Sermons on the Lesser Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture to which is Added, the Art of Divine Contentment; Recommended to the Publishers, and Never Before Printed (except Once) in the Former Editions of this Book, Altho Printed Twenty Times by Itself”, p.173

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• By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!

  Elijah Muhammad

  Book, Holy, Doings

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• An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

  William Ellery Channing

  Purpose, Golden, Moments

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• Who never found what good from science grew,
  Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.

  Charles Sprague Sargent

  Science, Two, Found

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• Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Ocean, Knowledge

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1872.

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• Go on, fair Science; soon to thee
  Shall Nature yield her idle boast;
  Her vulgar lingers formed a tree,
  But thou hast trained it to a post.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Nature, Science, Yield

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• How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
  How commentators each dark passage shun,
  And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

  Edward Young

  Dark, Science, Sun

  'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 7, l. 97.

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• Human science is an uncertain guess.

  Matt Prior

  Science, Uncertain, Humans

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• I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

  Samuel Butler

  Science, Giving, Literature

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.230, The Floating Press

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• Science could not fill the hole in my soul.

  Terry H. Anderson

  Science, Soul, Holes

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• Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

  Samuel Butler

  Nature, Believe, Ignorance

  Samuel Butler (1968). “The note-books of Samuel Butler”

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• Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ignorance, Science, Space

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• Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

  Robert A. Burton

  Art, Food, Science

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• In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame.

  Matt Prior

  Hurt, Science, Rivals

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• Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.

  James Bryant Conant

  Taken, Years, Special

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• I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living beings (the long neck of the giraffe, for example). I have therefore tried to see whether biological discoveries over the last thirty years or so fit in with Darwin's theory. I do not think that they do. To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all.

  Henry Lipson

  Thinking, Discovery, Years

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• Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

  Samuel Butler

  Hate, Science, Should

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.

  Adam Smith

  Organization, Ignorant, World

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• What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Wise, Children

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.

  Sam Harris

  Children, Differences, Parent

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