I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.
I can respect the gulf that separates alpinism from a running race and still appreciate that the physiology that accounts for endurance is the same if you are running a foot race in the city park or front pointing up the second ice field on the north face of the Eiger.
Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.
Truth takes no account of centuries.
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.
Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2. 5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.
Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-
By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.
Unless you have multiple accounts that you need to negotiate and you think the project is just too big to tackle on your own, you're better off just calling your creditors directly.
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.
What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.
The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.
Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers’ accounts.
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.