A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Accordingly, Mr. Cook spent four years, six months, two days, $5,228.20, six thousand yards of wiring, three hundred and two radio tubes, a generator, reams of paper, dizzying mentation and the good will of his wife in assembling his duplication machine.”
Source: Backteria and Other Improbable Tales
“Accordingly, the loss of the beloved one through a rival, or through death, is the greatest pain of all to those passionately in love; just because it is of a transcendental nature, since it affects him not merely as an individual, but also assails him in his essentia aeterna, in the life of the species, in whose special will and service he was here called. This is why jealousy is so tormenting and bitter, and the giving up of the loved one the greatest of all sacrifices.”
Source: Essays of Schopenhauer
“Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”
“Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.”
Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin
“Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.”
“Accordingly, it is not a Muslim ban at all, but a suspension of entrants from seven countries with conditions on the ground that both promote terrorism and make effective vetting impossible.”
“Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.”
“Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.”
Source: On the revolutions
“Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.”
“Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange has incorporated his own analysis of the problem with his general treatment of mechanics, and since his time M. Poinsôt has brought the subject under the power of a more searching analysis than that of the calculus, in which ideas take the place of symbols, and intelligent propositions supersede equations.”
“Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.”
“Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Account no man happy till he dies.”
“Accountability and cancellation are not the same thing. ... Cancel culture does not leave space for people to make mistakes, disagree, change, and transform their behavior. It simply asks that they be canceled, as if they never existed. While canceling someone may feel good or may feel like a form of justice, it leaves us with an uncompassionate world where change can never happen.
... Accountability is not about blame, shame, or punishment, toward ourselves or others. It's about taking ownership of and responsibility for our actions and the impact of our actions and asking others to do the same for themselves too.
... Cancel culture cancels the person. Accountability culture asks the person to be accountable for their behaviors.”
Source: Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
“Accountability and oversight are all part of the game changes that boards must address.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.”
Source: VishwaSutras: Universal Principles For Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences
“Accountability and transparency is truth to power. Those that serve see the reality.”
“Accountability breeds response-ability.”
Source: Principle Centered Leadership
“Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.”
“Accountability-driven frameworks can revolutionize how we manage firearms, ensuring rights coexist with safety. (Unloading the Gun Laws)”
“Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don’t keep the marketplace honest.”
“Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.”
“Accountability in police can best be done in an assembly where everyone concerned will come and share their views and opinion to the activities of the police because there's a whole lot of excesses in the police force that must be corrected for effective policing and better society's trust on them.”
“Accountability is accepting the fact that the soup’s too salty, that there’s only one saltshaker in the kitchen, and that I’m the only one holding it. And an inability to accept any one of these three realities means that I prefer to spend my life blaming others for recipes gone bad because of the way that I handled the ingredients.”
“Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.”
Source: Reach for the Summit
“Accountability is mankind’s greatest obstacle. All our challenges stem from that.”
“Accountability is not just about being or feeling sorry— it is about a set of actions that demonstrate remorse in practice. And it is not the feeling of remorse that delivers us from our shame— it is the practice of accountability in action. It is doing sorry.”
Source: Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
“Accountability is one of life’s sharpest mirrors.
It doesn’t flatter... It doesn’t filter... It reflects.
Because of this, sometimes what you see hurts… but this pain isn’t your enemy... avoidance is.
The discomfort you feel from taking accountability is the friction that will sharpen your soul and refine your path. It hurts (a lot sometimes), but the sting you feel can be the birth of change.
Real accountability isn’t just taking blame... It’s taking responsibility. Remember, healing begins the moment blame ends. Don’t run from it... run through it!
Let today be the day you no longer allow yourself to be shackled by the stagnant cycle of blaming others. Take accountability for your actions and decisions, regain control of your story, and unlock the unlimited potential of your growth.”
“Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.”
“Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.”
“Accountability is the line of control between human and animal behavior.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Accountability is the only real beginning to change.”
Source: Wounds
“Accountability is where the cowardice of my teetering self-image is wrangled into submission by the force of my ethics.”
“Accountability isn’t just a principle; it’s the heartbeat of trust. (Congress Needs Accountability: A Personal Call from Pulitzer-prize nominated author, Carlos Wallace – blog)”
“Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.”
Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
“Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Accountability only works if you want it to.”
Source: Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers
“Accountability
You are accountable for things that happen in your life. Whatever happens in your life only you are accountable and responsible for your reaction. You must have a positive reaction for your opportunity for growth. If you choose to blame and hold everyone responsible because of everything that you have been through you will become an unsavory character. Just wish them the best and move on.”
“ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.”
“Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.”
“Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.”
“Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.”
“Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.”
“Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.”
“Accounting is the language of business.”
“Accounting must be interpreted on the basis of general language usage and common sense.”
Source: Expert Witnessing in Forensic Account (02) by Telpner, Zeph - Mostek, Michael [Hardcover (2002)]
“Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.”
Source: Horror of the Heights: And Other Tales of Suspense