Accounts Quotes
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.
The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
Maybe your pregnant. Oops, hold on, you're not pregnant, on account of you're not gettin any.
No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.
Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically.
By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.
The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.
And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.
I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have.
The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.
Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.
There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.
I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.
Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.
We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.
The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.
As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.
When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.
Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.