Unaccountably Quotes

#1. Drat. I'm not sure anyone even noticed the kiss."
"I noticed it." He rubbed his mouth with the side of his hand. The taste of ripe plums still lingered on his lips. He found himself unaccountably thirsty.

Tessa Dare

#2. Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find ourselves in a somewhat intelligible world.

Sam Keen

#3. Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque.

Richard Russo

#4. You poor darling," said his wife, coming quickly to his side. She cradled his head against her breasts, a position he unaccountably loathed as much as she was fond of putting him in it, but which he tolerated now for tactical reasons. "What you need is a nice strong drink," she said.

L.J. Davis

#5. My sleeve is torn and my breeches are unaccountably damp, but nothing was harmed save my dignity.

George R R Martin

#6. Margaret in contrast held her head high, her cheeks flagged with a becoming rose color. She looked like a goddess enraged. A goddess who might, if they were alone, assault his person
the thought of which unaccountably aroused him.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#7. The extraordinary craving for someone faithful and devoted, which unaccountably and suddenly came over him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. It'll all be over soon, and you can go back to ruling the world." She slid off her stool ...
He watched her go. Felt unaccountably lonely.
"When did I stop ruling the world?" he called after her.

Erin Kellison

#9. Half the people in our asylums may be suffering from a physical lesion of the brain but the others are unaccountably insane. The real reason is demoniac possession brought about by looking upon terrible things that they were never meant to see.

Dennis Wheatley

#10. That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver's head. 'Hey, bus driver,' I said. 'Can I smoke?' 'May I,' said the bus driver. 'I love you,' I said.

Michael Chabon

#11. But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.
pp. 445-446

Ivan Goncharov

#12. The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

Isaac Marion

#13. Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life.

John Hodgman

#14. But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#15. It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

Ann Brashares

#16. I wish I could tell you which issues will move forward surprisingly fast and which will slip unaccountably backward. There will be surprises in store on both fronts. All I know for sure is that those twenty-six shapes are what we have to defend our liberty and sustain our hope.

Andrew Solomon

#17. competition could turn the most mundane task into a thrill, and that successfully completing a job - no matter how onerous - made me feel unaccountably happy.

Scott Jurek

#18. The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

Kate Christensen

#19. If you should be walking and, suddenly and unaccountably, smell lavender and mothballs, you may have just passed a corner of Zarenyia's intra-dimensional closet.

Jonathan L. Howard

#20. He was flying over India now, still making notes. He remembered hearing an Indian politician on TV talking about the British prime minister and being unable to pronounce her name properly. "Mrs. Torture," he kept saying. "Mrs. Margaret Torture." This was unaccountably funny.

Salman Rushdie

#21. What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

Philip Guston

#22. Even Grace still imagined there might be words, the words that could reach Dora and that had so far, unaccountably, not been hit upon. Only Caro recognized that Dora's condition was exactly that: a condition, an irrational state requiring professional, or divine, intervention.

Shirley Hazzard

#23. Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

George Santayana

#24. Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

Richard Preston

#25. All men are my friends. I have only to meet them.' In these hills, where life still moves at a leisurely and civilized pace, one is constantly meeting them. The

Ruskin Bond

#26. We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.

Jane Goodall

#27. If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

Abraham Lincoln

#28. Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Martin Freeman

#29. Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

Cordell Hull

#30. I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

Cormac McCarthy

#31. If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

Gore Vidal

#32. I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Harvey Weinstein

#33. How you talk to yourself, in your head, determines how you feel about yourself, and determines the actions you take.

Maddy Malhotra

#34. Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Walter Raleigh

#35. We learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that decisions determine destiny.

Thomas S. Monson

#36. Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

Georgia Jagger

#37. I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.

Jermain Defoe

#38. He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
French philosopher and writer.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau