Accounts Quotes
1374 Accounts quotes by 1042 unique authors
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I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.
— Dan Rather
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One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized,…
— Joseph Campbell
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Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right…
— Hosni Mubarak
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The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account;…
— Isaac Asimov
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on…
— Thucydides
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All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.
— John Mulaney
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men,…
— Hippocrates
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Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
— C.S. Lewis
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To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the…
— Fanny Burney
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He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving [than we do to ask Him]. As much as we…
— Francis Chan
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Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any easier…
— Lawrence Kushner
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Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and faithful and true…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?
— Hillary Clinton
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If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions.
— Heather Mills
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I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
— Henry David Thoreau
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One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left…
— Marc Benioff
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Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.
— H. L. Mencken
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes…
— Albert Pike
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I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and…
— Robert Nozick
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The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize…
— Daniel Quinn
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