Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It's kind of like...with our own checking accounts, just because it's in there doesn't mean you should spend it or can spend… — Jerry Jones Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and… — Pete Stark Copy Share Image
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin… — Istvan Deak Copy Share Image
As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image