Accounts Quotes - Page 39

• It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fall, Men, Principles

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.114

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Hands, Suffering

  Edgar Allan Poe, Harry Clarke (2008). “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”, p.168, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Children, Home, Mean

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values. But making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Odds, People, Example

  "Torture report: U.S. faces harsh realities" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Giving, Use, Lasts

  18 Copy quote

• One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.

  Pope John Paul II

  Animal, Environmental, Wish

  9 Copy quote

• As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or routine-to air, water, or soil. The Toxics Release Inventory is the main registry of such events, and it is available to the public through the Environmental Protection Agency. It is hardly comprehensive. Toxic emissions reported to the federal government are thought to account for only 5 percent of all chemical releases.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Agency, Government, Air

  4 Copy quote

• We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Years, Play, People

  Interview, March 1996.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Dust, Wife

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Hard Work, Broken

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account of the dynamics between actors and directors, because you're working hand in hand with them. You're not sitting outside the process watching. You become part of the process. You also see your tradecraft and see how movies are made.

  Ric Roman Waugh

  Blessed, Journey, Hands

  4 Copy quote

• A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.

  Christopher Plummer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Design

  "Fictional character: Simon Wyler". "The Lake House", www.imdb.com. 2006.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the thing about capitalism is it's an evil necessity, capitalism. Communism has been tried and failed, and socialism, that doesn't work very well. Capitalism works, but the problem about capitalism is it does mean that a few individuals become very wealthy. Therefore, I think those individuals have enormous responsibility to redistribute that wealth either by creating new businesses or creating new jobs and making sure that money just doesn't lie in a bank account for future generations.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Lying, Mean

  "George Negus interviews CEO and founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 2, 2008.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Personal Opinions, Play

  8 Copy quote

• I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when I go out. It sounds like I'm making a case for my own exceptionalism, which I suppose I am, but I wish it wasn't true.

  Tony Burgess

  Shoes, Wish, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Long, Doe

  80 Copy quote

• We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Want, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.252, Palgrave Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Visibility, Enough

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the amount of interest the US pays abroad - it is almost exactly equal to the amount of interest that it receives from abroad. American assets held abroad are earning a higher rate of return than foreign assets held here.

  Milton Friedman

  Balance, Income, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Men, Allies, British

  17 Copy quote

• Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.

  Dacia Maraini

  Children, Confused, Real

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza,

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm active on Facebook and Twitter professionally, then personally I have my own Facebook account, but nobody knows my name or anything. I don't use it to connect with my friends, but I love to play on it.

  Glenda Bailey

  Play, Names, Use

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Years, Choices, Political

  6 Copy quote

• I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your bank account, whatever is going on in your life on the professional side.

  Aaron Rose

  Artist, Thinking, Matter

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source