Own Account Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as… — Arthur Conan Doyle
When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before… — Sun Tzu
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors… — Abraham Lincoln
The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for… — Thomas Jefferson
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of… — Unknown Author
There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or… — H. L. Mencken
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to… — E. M. Forster
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,… — Bertrand Russell
Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from… — Alexandre Dumas
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He had to think he was Michael Waylandâ€™s son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed… — Cassandra Clare

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