If I'm going to lose, I'd rather lose on my own accord.

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and…

— Jay Griffiths

Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do…

— Francis Landey Patton

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened…

— Beth Ditto

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation. If someone throws a rock, you duck.

— Rami M. Shapiro

“I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own accord, to love you. So…

— Kamand Kojouri

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can…

— James F. Cooper

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .…

— William S. Burroughs

The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges…

— Noam Chomsky

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

— Laozi

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.

— George Herbert

A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God.

— D. Todd Christofferson

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be…

— Rumi

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol…

— Oscar Wilde