Accounts Quotes · Page 6

Inspiration is an empty bank account.

— Mickey Spillane

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

— Robert A. Heinlein

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

— Joseph Addison

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

— Henry David Thoreau

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

— Laurence Sterne

In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.

— Charles Kingsley

No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

— Mark Pagel

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

— Herbert Spencer

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don't hold it -…

— Joe Biden

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

— Epictetus

I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.

— Martin Rees

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen…

— John Lubbock

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

— Jackson Katz

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by…

— Winston Churchill

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at…

— Jonathan Swift

A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on…

— George Combe

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse…

— George Herbert

Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program,…

— Bill Frist

As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science,…

— Antoine Lavoisier

To assure the prosperity of a firm should be a long-term strategy and the turnover of key managers should be taken into…

— Masaaki Imai

'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all…

— George Herbert

It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from…

— James P. Hogan

I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where…

— Tim Winton

You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in…

— Stephen Fry

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients. So there are these certain basic things…

— Jamie Dimon

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power…

— Bertrand Russell

Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent…

— Samuel Smiles

Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now…

— Louis XIV

Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous…

— Isaac Asimov

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

— Mike Pence

Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.

— May Agnes Fleming

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

— Richard Arnold Epstein

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

— Eugene Wigner

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

— Isaac Newton

My account is paid in full. So, why are you calling me?

— Jon Jones

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

— Miguel de Unamuno