I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off… — Dennis Moore Copy Share Image
Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science. — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
I love energy. I love it. And I pursue it, and I want more of it. Physical and mental energy, to me,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I can respect the gulf that separates alpinism from a running race and still appreciate that the physiology that accounts for endurance… — Steve House Copy Share Image
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature,… — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc,… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James Copy Share Image
There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope,… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image