Account Quotes
1306 quotes by 978 authors
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No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I…
— Cassandra Clare
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There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw…
— Jeffrey Archer
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Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means…
— E. Nesbit
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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He had to think he was Michael Wayland’s son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed…
— Cassandra Clare
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Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the…
— John Archibald Wheeler
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
— Seneca the Elder
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Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time…
— Stephen King
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With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us…
— Joe Staton
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I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
— Simone Weil
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What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from…
— Edith Wharton
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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia…
— Henry Lawson
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A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with…
— Karl Mannheim
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Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
— Christopher Rice
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by…
— Preston Brooks
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One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the…
— Quentin Crisp
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The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be…
— George Orwell
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It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give…
— Confucius
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Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to…
— Warren Buffett
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