Account Quotes
1306 quotes by 1030 authors
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Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs…
— Hugh Mackay
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I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to…
— Arthur P. Warner
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The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
— Donald Sadoway
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It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the…
— Wayne Grudem
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
— Edmund Burke
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
— Oscar Wilde
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If I had a dollar for every time I smiled secretly having you in my mind I think my bank account would show up millions.
— Melville Elijah Stone
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Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is,…
— Paul of the Cross
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth'…
— Alistair Cooke
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More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in…
— Alistair Cooke
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you…
— David Hume
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It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe, without the agency of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to govern the universe…
— George Washington
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To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand…
— Christina Rossetti
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the…
— James Madison
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Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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