Accounts Quotes - Page 6

• If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

  Al Goldstein

  Cheating, Stay Strong, Divorce

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• A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

  Virginia Woolf

  Self, Six, Literature

  Orlando ch. 6 (1928)

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• Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

  Marco Rubio

  Husband, Father, Practice

  Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.

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• I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

  Leo Burnett

  Thinking, Ideas, Creative

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Going home must be like going to render an account.

  Joseph Conrad

  Home, Literature, Coming Home

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Might, Individual

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• As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Courage, Integrity, Silence

  Benjamin Franklin (1928). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Almanacks of 1733, 1749, 1756, 1757, 1758, First Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders”

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• All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

  James Madison

  Debt, Made, Latter

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.504

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• Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

  Jean Piaget

  Taken, Psychology, Logical

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• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Government, Years

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

  Edward Thorndike

  Dog, Magazines, Lost

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”

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• The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

  Alice Walker

  Lonely, Loneliness, Taken

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.70, The New Press

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• In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Science, Reality, Order

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• A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Sacrifice, Men

  Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 41

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Business, Mean

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Brother, Sibling

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• This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

  Origen

  Teaching, Church, Wickedness

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.56, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Order, Yesterday, May

  The National Observer (Silver Spring, Maryland), March 1, 1965.

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• When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

  Dorothy Parker

  Taken, Steps, Bank Accounts

  Dorothy Parker (1996). “The Uncollected Dorothy Parker”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Country, Wind, Two

  Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.249, tredition

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• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Loneliness, Ambition

  Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”

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• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Philosophy, Loneliness

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• We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Work, Russia, Europe

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Philosophy, Men, World

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