Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60.
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.
Truth takes no account of centuries.
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.
There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves. . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.
We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.
He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow-through our premature death or through His unexpected coming-what would we do today? What confessions would we make? What practices would we discontinue? What accounts would we settle? What forgivenesses would we extend? What testimonies would we bear? If we would do those things then, why not now?
Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.
The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.
When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.