Top 100 Account Quotes
#1. The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.
Philip Khuri Hitti
#2. Indeed the study of the Easy as we know it today, if undertaken in a really direct way, would be of great assistance towards the understanding of all Antiquity, on account of that very quality of fixity and stability.
Rene Guenon
#3. We're building the ultimate experience for fun, flexibility, and empowerment where you can rent a car, fill it with discounted gas, meet new people, stop for a Starbucks coffee, and have your earnings deposited into your bank account all in the same day.
Logan Green
#4. Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
Robert Walpole
#5. When Obamacare actually kicked in, just as we knew, if you liked your insurance, as I did - I had a health savings account - then I wasn't going to be able to keep it because it doesn't meet the requirements.
Louie Gohmert
#6. Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is not worthy of serious consideration.
Billy Graham
#7. Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
Marvin Harris
#8. As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#9. taught to compose a letter on an e-mail account, and then store it as a draft instead of sending it. His colleagues, armed with a password to the same account, could then log in and retrieve the draft e-mail without it ever having been sent, presumably avoiding America's watchful eye.
Mark Bowden
#10. The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
Walter Raleigh
#12. Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing.
Terry Goodkind
#13. THE AUTHOR GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF AND FAMILY:
Jonathan Swift
#14. 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
#15. AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
A.O. Scott
#16. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.
Henry Petroski
#19. But in fact there are infinite subtleties to identity-that is to say, there is the way that you are, which is the sum of the way you are becoming and the way you have been, which does not take into account the way you secretly wish to be.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#20. Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.
Plutarch
#21. The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.
John H. Walton
#22. If we take into account that women have had the right to vote only for some 100 years - in some countries even less - and that we have already won seats in governments or presidential offices, I understand that men look at this rise with some anxiety.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#23. Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.
William, Saroyan
#24. To look after a medieval estate, one required a map, an indexed account book and an abacus. For its time, this was a highly sophisticated geographical information system. Looking after the earth and each of its parts requires more data, a better index and more data processing.
Tom Turner
#25. The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.
Thomas Malthus
#26. Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.
Ezra Taft Benson
#28. Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
Honore De Balzac
#29. Relationship is not about how much money you've in your bank account. It's about the attention and priority you give to those that stood by you when you had nothing.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#30. I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major philanthropic decisions myself after taking account of a range of expert opinion.
Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
#31. But it is no use trying to account for things in Fairy Land; and one who travels there soon learns to forget the very idea of doing so, and takes everything as it comes; like a child, who, being in a chronic condition of wonder, is surprised at nothing.
George MacDonald
#32. Your play account is also designed to strengthen your "receiving" muscle.
T. Harv Eker
#33. Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#34. There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
George William Norris
#36. This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.
John M Swomley
#37. The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.
Ulysses S. Grant
#38. Swis bank & banks like this must be done away with to put an end to plundering of poor nations. the account holders should be hanged.
David Self
#39. As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?'
Pete Sessions
#40. Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.
Sean Duffy
#41. The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself.
Herbert M. Shelton
#42. I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.
Henry James
#43. 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 on it at some later date.
Jeffrey Archer
#44. You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means.
David Javerbaum
#45. The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance.
Claude Mandil
#46. Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.
Ken Hom
#47. You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.
John Ruskin
#48. As a hungry man makes haste and takes large morsels on account of his great hunger so your servant feels a great desire to die that he may glorify you, he hurries day and night to complete his work in order that he may give up his tears and his blood to be shed for you.
Raymond Lulle
#49. It's a wonder, given your prowess with these delicious women, that there aren't dozens of little Bonapartes running around. Tell me, how do you account for that?
Carolly Erickson
#50. Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Abraham Cowley
#52. The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
Honore De Balzac
#53. 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 theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.
Robert Nozick
#54. Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
Bob Schieffer
#55. We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
Paul McCartney
#56. Anywhere is home to the man with a fat bank account - the cops leave him alone.
Robert A. Heinlein
#57. Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? ... The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.
Kevin E. Trenberth
#58. He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;
Matthew Henry
#59. Algorithms are simplifications; they can't and don't take everything into account (like a billionaire uncle who has included the applicant in his will and likes to rock-climb without ropes).
Andrew McAfee
#60. Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.
Bryant McGill
#61. Only the schools' inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.
George Leonard
#62. For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big barrier to entry.
Charles Schwab
#63. A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.
Heather Wilson
#64. Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
Salman Rushdie
#65. A true Net Performance Score will take into account many aspects of a typical customer engagement.
Pearl Zhu
#66. The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.
Anne Graham Lotz
#67. A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says In a Relationship!
Jimmy Fallon
#68. Fear is a false prophet and believes that what it fears is actually coming to pass. At night every trifling occurrence seems more terrible to the besieged, for on account of the darkness no man tells what he sees but always what he hears.
Onasander
#69. I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
Barton Gellman
#70. Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
George Herbert
#71. Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.
Mao Zedong
#72. My weight is a bit like the state of my bank account; if I don't check the balance I can't get upset.
Ruth Saberton
#73. I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.
Jerry Della Femina
#74. 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 that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.
E. Nesbit
#75. Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
Flavius Josephus
#76. Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.
Flannery O'Connor
#77. The concept of deferred gratification, or sacrificing now to save for the future, can be helpful in setting aside money in a retirement account for old age. It can also serve as an effective rationalization for life avoidance.
Chris Guillebeau
#78. Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
Bill Gates
#79. Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.
Maximus The Confessor
#80. All of us will give an account to God about our life on earth, about our position and actions
Sunday Adelaja
#81. The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition! Finally,
Herman Melville
#82. So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.
Charlotte Bronte
#83. A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!
Rumi
#84. I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.
Simon Newcomb
#85. He plainly perceived this truth, the basis of his life henceforth, that so long as she should be alive, so long as he should have her with him, he should need nothing except for her, and fear nothing save on her account.
Victor Hugo
#86. To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom.
Thomas A Kempis
#87. 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 the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.
Charles Kay Ogden
#88. I have already given some account of the Steppenwolf's outward appearance. He gave at the very first glance the impression of a significant, an uncommon, and unusually gifted man. His
Hermann Hesse
#89. True decency was very different from pathological generosity, because pathological generosity did not take into account the feelings of the people who were the object of the generosity?
David Foster Wallace
#90. Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.
Ana Monnar
#91. number of shares to buy = (account size x percentage risked on each trade) / (entry price - stop loss) = ($10,000 x 0.02) / (17.07 - 14.50) = 77.82 shares, which we will round up to 80 shares.
Matthew R. Kratter
#92. The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
David Bentley Hart
#93. We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
#95. Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being.
Oliver Sacks
#96. I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can
Linda Ellerbee
#97. Textbooks in economics, which explain the economic purpose of money (a unit of account, a store of value, and a means of exchange), usually neglect to mention the chief role of money in America: a source of entertainment.
Michael Lewis
#98. If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Marilyn Monroe
#99. The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
Boris Sidis
#100. At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.
Sebastian Vettel
