Unaccountable Quotes

47 Unaccountable quotes by 39 unique authors

Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge… — James Dobson
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name… — Jesse Jackson
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In… — Lewis Thomas
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why?… — Virginia Woolf
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the… — Walt Whitman
...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the… — Thomas Hardy
All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one… — Douglas Adams
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be… — Mark Twain
I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page… — H P Lovecraft
There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as… — John Crowley
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things. — Deanna Raybourn
What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable… — Mark Levin
What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems,… — Noam Chomsky
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom… — Asa Gray
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just… — Hermann Hesse
When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes… — Richard Jefferies
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but… — Vitruvius
Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived… — Alexander Dumas
Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 1882)
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machineryalways buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this… — Virginia Woolf

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