Accounts Quotes · Page 55

The play account rule is that it must be spent every month. That's right! Each month you have to blow all the…

— T. Harv Eker

Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I…

— Katherine Mansfield

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

— Robertson Davies

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

— Jean-Claude Duvalier

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of…

— Antony Beevor

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is,…

— Giovanni Ribisi

There's something very noble about bringing home a paycheck to provide for oneself and one's family. However, there's so much more to…

— David Kim

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

— Ernst Mayr

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we…

— William Crashaw

But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington…

— Mark Leibovich

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

— Eric Weiner

We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Hillary Clinton was…

— James Comey

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of…

— Niels Bohr

I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news.…

— Bill Gates

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest…

— Thomas Carlyle

What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the…

— Robert M. Price

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

— Douglas Hofstadter

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own…

— Arthur Eddington

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts…

— Eckhart Tolle

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us…

— Sarah Palin

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

— Hans Reichenbach

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy…

— Breyten Breytenbach

While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account…

— Arthur Levitt Jr

One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of…

— Marcellin Berthelot

And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon…

— Thomas Hobbes