Account Quotes

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In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world. — Jean-Claude Duvalier
In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done… — Thomas Frank
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from… — Saul Bellow
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For… — Xenophanes
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was… — Josephus
Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things… — Chris Kyle
Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In… — Akhil Sharma
Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword… — Tom Brokaw
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman
The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility. — Christian Harrison
You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever… — David Javerbaum
Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account. — Susana Martinez
To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens… — Pierre Daninos
In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There… — Roone Arledge
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee,… — Ben Macintyre
To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas. — Robert Breault
The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable. — Thomas Huxley
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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