“God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the present to speak words of truth and judgment in advance of that final holding-to-account.” HumansGovernmentSpeakChurchResponsibilityOne DayJudgmentAccountsFinalsGods Will Author:N. T. Wright
“Your life and everything about your world should be represented on your social media accounts, and everybody feels that way from family to friends to boyfriends and girlfriends.” WorldWayFeelsShouldSocialMediaAccountsSocial MediaGirlfriendBoyfriend And Girlfriend Author:Aeriel Miranda
“The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.” DifferencesClassAccountsFormerLatterPropositionsResemblance Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.” WorldWaySeemsAttentionFocusSpecialDrawsEssenceAccountsFeaturesEmbeddedCausation Author:L.A. Paul
“I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.” WorldRealitySpaceMiddleObjectsOrdinaryAccountsFundamentalsStructureAssumingRejectsFlatsTime And Space Author:L.A. Paul
“The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients. So there are these certain basic things that aren't going to change. Companies are going to have needs for equity, debt, advice, FX, and derivatives. Individuals are going to have needs for auto loans, mortgages, something that looks like a deposit account, and the ability to send money to people. Those things aren't going to change.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksCertainIndividualAbilityCompanyAdviceAccountsDebtBest WayClientsEquityLoanMortgageStandpointDepositsDerivativesBasic Things Author:Jamie Dimon
“There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.” PersonsSocialMemoriesSituationKnownInfluenceAccountsConformityContagion Author:Rob Roberge
“I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.” KnowsShouldSelfSidesInvolvedDrugAccountsBubblesAddictAlcoholicsLarryDrug AddictAbsorptionSelf AbsorptionKramer Author:Elton John
“I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.” ThinkingNeedsSometimesRacismAccountsSexismXenophobiaCripples Author:Anna Quindlen
“If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.” PeopleIfsMenWritingFirstsBigsVoiceWhiteInterestingHappenedAccountsHistoricalEstablishmentNonfictionWhite ManReally InterestingUmbrella Author:Isabel Allende
“As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.” CareAccountsHistoricalI CareReally GreatHistorical ContextGreat Historical Author:Jonathan Lethem
“And so to dismiss these homegrown terrorists as boobs, which is one of the terms that was used in one of the New York newspapers after the Miami raid, is true now, but to bet on that is I think a sure way to lose your bank account.” ThinkingWayUsedTermLosesNew YorkAccountsTerroristNewspapersMiamiBank AccountsHomegrown Author:Michael Scheuer
“But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived slavery because it's different when you hear it from their mouths instead of reading it from a history book.” MenFirstsPersonsBookDifferentStoriesReadingMouthsMen And WomenAccountsSlaverySurvivedFirst PersonHistory Books Author:Jurnee Smollett
“At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, "I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids." But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.” KnowsKindMayLongHas BeensIdeasCareKidsGuyHouseMillionsWifeParticularAccountsBe GoodSillyVainI CareRating Author:Questlove
“MySpace is such a weird world to me. I don't have a MySpace account. The stuff that's up there, I didn't set any of it up. Fans set it up.” WorldStuffFansAccounts Author:Spencer Krug
“If you do not have at least an eight-month emergency fund, and you think there's a probability you could loose your job - and it's not just losing your job; you could be in a car accident, get sick - continue to pay the minimum on your credit card every month. Everything beyond that needs to go to establish an emergency fund. And if you have an emergency fund saved, then fund your retirement account before paying down credit card debt.” IfsThinkingNeedsJobsPayCarMonthsLosingSickAccountsEightCreditDebtAccidentsSavedCardsFundRetirementMinimumProbabilityEmergenciesCredit CardCar AccidentCredit Card Debt Author:Suze Orman
“Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.” SourceAccountsForestsAgricultureDeforestationTropics Author:Ramez Naam
“When you start using more expensive cameras, everything around it gets more expensive, which is something we hadn't necessarily taken into account beforehand. Your lighting package gets way more expensive, and then coloring it is going to be more expensive. So I think all of that will essentially be cushioning our camera package. Budgets beget budgets, and expenses beget expenses.” ThinkingWayTakenAccountsCamerasBudgetsExpensiveExpensesPackagesLightingBegets Author:Katie Aselton
“Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of U.S. economic output. And the reason why is because these companies can get very big, very quickly.” ReasonBigsJobsCompanyEconomyEconomicAccountsReason WhyVentureOutputVenture Capital Author:Juan Enriquez
“The reason that I proposed health savings accounts for everybody starting at birth, is because you very quickly accumulate an amount of money that you can use for your interactions with those health care providers.” ReasonUseCareAmountBirthAccountsStartingSavingHealth CareInteractionSavingsProvidersSavings Accounts Author:Benjamin Carson
“I know a lot of people in Washington would say, well, you know, indigent people can't manage their health savings account. They're too stupid. But they're not too stupid. Somebody has a diabetic foot ulcer, they learn very quickly not to go the emergency room where it costs five times more to take care of it. They go to the clinic.” PeopleKnowsWellsCareRoomsFiveFeetStupidCostAccountsTake CareManageSavingEmergenciesSavingsClinicEmergency RoomUlcersSavings Accounts Author:Benjamin Carson
“People will make worse financial decisions for them if they're choosing from a lot of options than if they're choosing from a few options. If they have more options they're more likely to avoid stocks and put all their money in money market accounts, which doesn't even grow at the rate of inflation.” PeopleIfsGrowsDecisionAccountsRateFinancialInflation Author:Sheena Iyengar
“[Joe] Biden countered. He was speaking at a summit for working families, and he said he had no stocks, no bonds, or a savings account. He then asked a Secret Service agent to hand him his hobo bindle, and he jumped a freight train back to D.C.” SaidHandsSecretAccountsTrainSavingAgentsSummitSavingsBidenSecret ServiceSavings AccountsHobos Author:Peter Sagal
“There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.” PastOrderFoundWaterRecordsImagineTreeEvolutionRootsAccountsPlantSpeciesLeavingApplesRacingRelativePrimitiveFloodOrangeDinosaursGeologyMammalsSneakersNikeMagnoliasApples And OrangesOrange Trees Author:Frank Zindler
“The information that the Secret Service shared with the White House included hotel records and firsthand accounts - the same types of evidence the agency and military relied on to determine who in their ranks was involved.” HouseWhiteSecretRecordsMilitaryInformationTypeInvolvedEvidenceAccountsDetermineAgencyHotelWhite HouseNotableSecret Service Author:Carol D. Leonnig
“We are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word.. Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.” ActionSpeakCommunicationPercentAccountsSevenOur Actions Author:John Assaraf
“We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator ["Bernie"] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.” TwoStatesTogetherWinningChallengesPartyNumbersHalfVisionMillionsStyleHugeCitizensAccountsClintonExtraordinaryInspiredCampaignsSecretarySenatorsResonanceCaucus Author:Jeff Merkley
“So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.” PeopleRealInterestingMorningHappenedChangedCoupleTerribleAccountsExplanationShockSubtleArcsWednesdayWednesday Morning Author:Cass Sunstein
“Aggregating is only a part of what we do: HuffPost offers a combination of original blog posts (approximately 200 a day), original reporting, syndicated news (like from AP) that we pay for, and licensed content (via content-sharing partnerships). Original blog posts and pieces from our reporters account for more than 40 percent of all content viewed on HuffPost.” PayPiecesOffersNewsPercentAccountsOriginalsPostsCombinationPartnershipReportersBlogs Author:Arianna Huffington
“The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.” WorldNeedsTwoCountryProblemTodayFacesHalfPovertyPositionCircumstancesUniqueModelsThirdsAccountsCrisisDollarsEnvironmentalPopulationDecentAddressesDevelopmentalWorld LifeEnvironmental Crisis Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.” BigsHappenedMysteryAccountsRemainsDescriptionCosmicBangs Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“When you take the entire system into account, ways of developing more of something in one dimension can actually create scarcities in another. If we say we have to increase production because people need more food, more housing, more meat, or more milk, we can make one thing grow in a certain way. But by doing that we create externalities so that there are scarcities in other related things.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsCertainGrowsOne ThingAccountsIncreaseProductionsDevelopingMeatRelatedDimensionsMilkHousingScarcityExternalities Author:Vandana Shiva
“I like to let my skin breathe when I'm not shooting or working, so that's why you'll find me on most of my social media accounts barefaced with face masks!” FacesSocialMediaSkinsAccountsSocial MediaBreatheShootingMaskFind Me Author:Shay Mitchell
“How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.” ThinkingWorldTryingParentMistakeSituationThis WorldTheoryAccountsHorriblePhenomenonMurdererManson Author:James Hillman
“My daughter wrote a book. She is a New York Times Bestselling Author. Fabulous. Couldn't be more proud. She also has no health insurance. A 401 K? Dream on! My daughter left her stable corporate job to be a writer without dental benefits or a savings account, a.k.a. my worst nightmare.” BookDreamJobsLeftWorstNew YorkProudBenefitsDaughterAccountsSavingCorporateNightmareMy DaughterStableFabulousSavingsNew York TimesDentalWorst NightmaresSavings Accounts Author:Kate Siegel
“I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it into an offshore account. And on the very day that he was increasing the attacks on the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, the export sector, he was signing documents to conceal his own money offshore. So the exposé of the Panama money laundering has hit some of the dictators that America is protecting and promoting.” AmericaPresidentCompanyPaperAccountsMovedRegionsChocolateDictatorDocumentsPapersEasternPromotingUkraineSigningUkrainianPanamaOffshoreMoney Laundering Author:Michael Hudson
“Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.” PeopleNeedsGivingGovernmentTogetherJobsResponsibilityPathProtectAccountsIncomeLabourExitAusterity Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status.” Would BeDecisionPolicyAccountsCurrentsBorrowing Author:Andrea Leadsom
“I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.” ShouldMadeTwoMistakeResponsibilityOfficeAccountsTaking ResponsibilityMade A MistakeI Made A Mistake Author:Hillary Clinton
“What I did was permitted. My emails went to state.gov accounts. I did what I did, and I've said that it was a mistake. I've tried to do the best I could to get that information out to people.” PeopleSaidStatesMistakeInformationAccountsEmailDo The Best Author:Hillary Clinton
“[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.” WritingMadeHappensFictionAccountsWriting FictionSwiss Author:William S. Burroughs
“We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Hillary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.” PeopleActorsAccountsClintonAccessContactSecretaryHostileEmail Author:James Comey
“One of the biggest challenges for us is that people have different accounts. People say different things happened at different times, and when you're trying to sort through all that, how do you decide what's right?” PeopleTryingDifferentChallengesHappenedAccountsThings HappenDifferent ThingsDifferent Times Author:Andrew Aydin
“I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit. Knowing that now, in the future we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game.” GamesLevelsSituationKnowingFootballLimitsLowsAccountsRangeI've LearnedPoundsInflationLow LevelSpecificationsDeflationPossible Change Author:Bill Belichick
“I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.” IfsFeltGoalStepsClearWrittenNeededOppositesAccountsWingsSettingSettingsReasoningSetting GoalsOverachieverWritten Goals Author:Edwina Findley
“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.” PeopleMenCharacterFilmCertainImagineEventsHe ManInvolvedPeriodsResearchAspectAccountsExtraordinaryPhotographVersionsContactEstatesBiographiesClueFifthPersonaAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I think it's only fair that Americans take into account who can keep them safe. Who has the best ideas for defeating ISIS. And protecting us here at home. I think I have laid out what I believe would work.” ThinkingBelieveIdeasHomeI BelieveSafeFairsAccountsIsis Author:Hillary Clinton
“It is obvious when an actor has put work into prep and research and understanding their character, and they're making choices, because that's what happens when you take the time - or have the time - to really think about the material, but that only accounts for about 60% of what happens on the day. When you're in the moment, you throw it all away. Well, you don't throw it all away, but it's in you now, and everything is reactionary in that moment and you have to be honest and present and listening.” ThinkingWellsMomentsCharacterHappensChoicesActorsUnderstandingHonestMaterialsListeningResearchAccountsObviousBeing HonestThat MomentReactionariesMaking ChoicesPreps Author:Logan Lerman
“America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.” WantCountryAmericaAccountsDancer Author:Gene Kelly
“As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.” SchoolLastsGrowsGrowthGreaterTeachingCenturyDangerSkillsCreatingTrainingDirectAccountsAssociationSplitsFormalRapidsPresent TimeUndesirableRapid Growth Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education