“I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won.” PeopleThinkingFactsPrinciplesSeeingPositionTrumpAccountsBending Author:Jonah Goldberg
“[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!” NeedsTryingTraditionAccountsDeviants Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.” FirstsBookThirdsAccountsInstitutePredestinationInstitutes Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they weren't all powerful, that history could always be wrong about man. Today, this is how we are starting to think.” ThinkingMenTodayPowerfulAccountsHistoricalStartingReasoningCriteria Author:Catherine Camus
“Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context. In economics it's the same. Economics wanted to take into account theory over and above human criteria, or the parameter 'man'.” MenHumansMeanTodayWantedTheoryPureEconomicsAccountsIdeologyCriteriaParameters Author:Catherine Camus
“We've had presidents that have put their stock into account and they didn't know what their stock mix was and I like that. And I think Donald Trump has agreed that he would do the same on his stock. He's either sold it or will do it.” ThinkingKnowsPresidentTrumpAccounts Author:Rand Paul
“People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.” PeopleMightIndividualHavensPositionAccountsSelfishCriticizeGenesAltruismSelfish GeneReciprocate Author:Richard Dawkins
“I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.” EvolutionAccounts Author:Richard Dawkins
“It is well known, widely known that the US President-elect [Donald Trump] has publicly spoken in favour of normalising Russian-American relations. We cannot but support this. Of course, we understand that it will not be an easy job, taking into account the degree to which Russian-American relations have degraded. But we are ready to cover our part of the way.” WayWellsJobsCoursesEasyPresidentKnownSupportReadyTrumpDegreesAccountsRelationWell KnownFavourUs President Author:Vladimir Putin
“In the area of international security, taking into account that the United States and Russia are the largest nuclear powers: We are ready to jointly work to strengthen the non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. We are ready to work together, and much closer than before, on the problem of fighting terrorism, international terrorism, and here we certainly have vast opportunities.” MeanStatesProblemTogetherFightingOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesSecurityReadyWeaponsMassAreasDestructionAccountsInternationalTerrorismNuclearRussiaWorking TogetherRegimesNational SecurityWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionDeliveryNuclear PowerProliferationFighting TerrorismInternational Terrorism Author:Vladimir Putin
“It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.” MenShouldDoneRealityEasyCasesShould HaveAccountsHindsight Author:Megyn Kelly
“Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.” GivingWritingSeemsVoiceForeverGiving UpAccountsBuddhistInnocenceNot Sure Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.” StoriesAccountsAdamAdam And Eve Author:Elie Wiesel
“An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "” MenShouldSaidImportantStatesAmericaFilmTakenWrittenOne ThingStudentsHe ManShould HaveAccountsDollarsCriticsUniversityCinemaReviewsItalianRomeNationalityOnce Upon A TimePassportsBad ReviewsSergio Leone Author:Sergio Leone
“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.” IfsStillsI CanRunningFacesRaceCitiesFeetFrontsFieldsAppreciateAccountsIceParksEndurancePointingPhysiologyRunning RaceCity ParksAlpinism Author:Steve House
“To assure the prosperity of a firm should be a long-term strategy and the turnover of key managers should be taken into account from the stand point of long-term consideration and not from the monthly or quarterly flavors.” ShouldLongTermTakenKeysAccountsStrategyProsperityManagersFirmLong TermConsiderationFlavorTurnover Author:Masaaki Imai
“In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.” RealityUsedWhiteColorAccountsHistoricalExtremesLegacyRangeWhite SupremacyBlacknessSupremacy Author:Kerry James Marshall
“There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."” BelieveRealCountryLawChoicesNationsDifficultPresidentCitizensAccountsBarackOfficialsSeniorRule Of LawDifficult Choices Author:Edward Snowden
“The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book."” ShouldWellsBookEndsShowsAsksNamesAnswersPleaseAccountsHandleExpertsClientsEmailPresentationFollow MeHi My Name Is Author:Simon Sinek
“If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.” IfsTryingDoeFormAsksSocialKnowingConditionsAwarenessMovementAccountsOutrageOutragedMobilization Author:Judith Butler
“People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds.” PeopleWorldHumansKindTwoImportantRealityUsedFunSexHuman BeingsChangedDramaAccountsDistanceScaryGhostUsed To BeIntimateSplitsSpectrumCoexistenceSimulationReally ScaryImportant Relationships Author:Paul Virilio
“The truth is, if you are a woman saving 10% of your income for retirement, and you put it in the bank account, your chances of retiring well - living on 90% of your pre-retirement income for your full life - is 0%.” IfsWellsLife IsChanceTruth IsAccountsIncomeSavingRetirementRetiringLiving OnBank AccountsFull Life Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat.” SeemsAccountsCurrencyNeat Author:William Gibson
“[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you're going to have a police State.” StatesAcceptingSupportFailingMilitaryAccountsPolicePremisesInevitabilityPolice StateConscriptionPolice Power Author:Murray Bookchin
“Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous peoples, and work for fair trade rules. Well, it's exactly the same for human rights - from non-discrimination to the basic rights to food, safe water, education and health care. We are talking rights not needs. There are standards that governments have signed up to - but nobody is holding them to account.” NeedsTryingHumansWellsLooksGovernmentCareWaterTalkingEnvironmentRightsSafeStandardsFairsAccountsRegardTradeCleanHuman RightsLifestyleDiscriminationHealth CareIndigenousIndigenous PeopleFair TradeBasic Rights Author:Mary Robinson
“As a citizen of Ireland I have more sovereignty over our government. Because citizens now have more ways of holding the Irish government to account, not just under Irish constitutional law, but under the European system, at Strasbourg and Brussels. This, I believe, is the benefit for individual citizens.” WayBelieveGovernmentLawIndividualI BelieveCitizensBenefitsAccountsIrelandSovereigntyBrusselsConstitutional LawThis I Believe Author:Mary Robinson
“Capital market liberalization includes freeing up deposit and lending rates, opening up the market to foreign banks, and removing restrictions on capital account transactions and bank lending. The focus is on deregulation, not on finding the right regulatory structure.” FocusFindingsAccountsStructureRateOpeningRestrictionTransactionsLendingOpening UpDepositsDeregulation Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“[John Adams] letters courting Abigail Smith are especially priceless. In one of 1764 he addresses her as "Miss Adorable" and says that "By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses, and as many Hours of your Company after 9 O'Clock as he shall please to Demand and charge them to my Account."” GivingLastsNightOrderHoursCompanyMissingPleaseDemandKissingLettersAccountsClockAddressesLast NightPricelessAdorableTokensAbigail Author:Gordon S. Wood
“There was a girl that bullied me years ago, and I was going through, you know, just the standard Instagram wormhole on her account, going way back into her photos and, yes, ended up liking something and I was like, "No!" I just wanted to disconnect my Instagram - Oh, and then she wrote me a message saying, "It's so great to see you doing well." I was like, "Nope, nope, you don't get to say that now!"” KnowsWayYearsWellsWantedGirlMessagesStandardsYears AgoAccountsInstagramBulliedWormholes Author:Bella Heathcote
“Yet and still, Peter Norman took into account that the aboriginals were suffering just as much in Australia as Blacks in the United States were suffering.” StillsStatesSufferingUnitedUnited StatesAccountsAustraliaPeterAboriginal Author:John Carlos
“I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.” WorldWayFeltMissingNeededWalkingAccountsDiedPeterBank Accounts Author:John Carlos
“I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.” HopeReligiousWasteVoteAccountsVotingRelevantAffiliation Author:John F. Kennedy
“No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.” Has BeensAmericaFightingWhiteRaceDyingBattleDiversityAccountsSocial JusticeGraveyardFoxholes Author:John F. Kennedy
“I don't believe that unemployment is all voluntary, by anticipation of future wage movements or this sort of thing. I know you can modify the models by taking into account the indivisibilities, but I don't really think that people are voluntarily unemployed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveMovementModelsAccountsDon't BelieveAnticipationUnemploymentUnemployed Author:Kenneth Arrow
“When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.” WayAccountsDamageEcological Author:Vandana Shiva
“We would have to give out something for the poor in India. It is my responsibility to give the people an account of every rupee. I will use it at right places. I won't let it get stolen.” PeopleGivingUsePoorResponsibilityAccountsIndiaStolenRight PlaceRupees Author:Narendra Modi
“We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.” PeopleNeedsMediaAccountsIndependentLike MeOld PeopleIndependent Media Author:George H. W. Bush
“Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.” PeopleImportantMediaAbuseAccountsElsewhere Author:George H. W. Bush
“I always had a Twitter account. I always had an Instagram account. I was always active on it, always spoke my mind. To me, it's really weird that I got so many followers and people that pay attention the way they do. It's hilarious, actually, because people didn't used to listen to me at all. I used to be like, "Does anybody hear me talkin'?"” PeopleWayMindDoeUsedPayAttentionAccountsActiveUsed To BePay AttentionSpokesFollowersInstagramListen To MeReally Weird Author:Leslie Jones
“When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You're going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do.” FeelsWritingCoursesCasesReaderAccountsThings To DoLeisureSaneEssaysObjections Author:George Saunders
“If your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being slowly released by WikiLeaks from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta.” PeopleIfsMatterTodayPurposeAccountsClintonCampaignsChairsEmailCliqueWikileaksHacked Author:Thomas Frank
“I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.” GivingWritingTryingLooksLongHas BeensHardFeelingsYoungSpaceFictionLong TimeAccountsShouldersWho I AmMake SenseLooking BackWeird ThingsWriting Fiction Author:Tim Winton
“That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts with a nominal foreign address's owner). They pretend to make their global income in Ireland. They have an office, which could be simply a postal drop box in Ireland, and claim to make all their money there, not in America.” BigsAmericaCompanyTechnologyInformationOfficeAccountsClaimsDollarsBoxesIncomeApplesAddressesOwnersIrelandMicrosoftInformation Technology Author:Michael Hudson
“What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth in our economy are getting the kind of financing that they need.” NeedsKindJobsMovingGrowthEconomyAccountsMoving ForwardSmall BusinessFinancingJob Growth Author:Barack Obama
“Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!" But as I've gotten older, and I look at the world, I think there's a lot of ways in which that kind of building up from the smallest building blocks doesn't actually account for the world. As I've gotten older, I've also become sensitive to the ways - to all that is not amenable to explanation. Things that, even if you had an explanation, what good would it be?” IfsThinkingWorldWayLooksKindKidsYoungBuildingTheoryAccountsPhysicsBlockSensitiveExplanationAtomsSmallestPhysicistBuilding UpBuilding BlocksAmenable Author:Adam Frank
“Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that human beings are integral components of the world these accounts articulate - that, for example, we are simply material bodies subject to the same natural processes as everything else.” MenWorldTryingHumansBodyProcessNaturalHuman BeingsSubjectsExampleMaterialsAccountsComponentsJuxtapositionLaughable Author:David E. Cooper
“Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim to humility. I see hubris on both sides: a pretence that we could ascend to an objective account of the world, on the one hand, and a pretence that we have the resources to live and act without a sense of there being something to which we answerable, on the other. So both sides are 'villains'.” WorldHandsSidesHumilityResourcesAccountsClaimsLaysObjectivesVillainBoth SidesHubrisPretence Author:David E. Cooper
“Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But who is holding them to account? Our mission is to make it known that these conventions are good tools for civil society to hold their local authority, their government and businesses accountable.” HumansGovernmentKnownRightsAuthorityCommitmentToolsUniversalAccountsInternationalHuman RightsMissionsLocalsConventionsDeclarationCovenantCivil SocietyDeclaration Of Human RightsGovernment And Business Author:Mary Robinson
“We need a more holistic approach in which we take account of society's most vulnerable sectors. We shouldn't just do broad averaging of country statistics but rather we need to disaggregate the data to determine where the resources are most needed. In most cases, it's usually the reverse: those who are most marginalized - minorities and rural and remote communities - get the least attention and money.” NeedsCountryCommunityAttentionCasesNeededApproachResourcesAccountsDetermineVulnerableDataMinoritiesStatisticsBroadsReverseHolisticMarginalizedHolistic Approach Author:Mary Robinson
“I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took up all my time. People wanted me to have a Twitter account and I spent the whole day figuring out what would be the first message. I still haven't wrapped my head around it.” PeopleFirstsStillsWholeWould BeWantedSocialDealsMediaHavensMessagesAccountsSocial MediaMy TimeWebsite Author:Patti Smith