Quotessence
Home / Topics / Accounts Quotes

Accounts Quotes

Browse 2708 quotes about Accounts.

Related topics

ScienceIfsMenPeopleKnowsWorldWayBank AccountsShouldThinkingMayGivingHumansFactsWellsNeedsMadeDoeFirstsMindHas BeensWantBelieveSeemsSocialMeanYearsPersonsStatesBookKnowledgeCountryLongIdeasOrderWritingArtLittlesTwoUseKindReasonStoriesMatterSaidRealLawLooksTakenImportantProblemTheoryGovernmentLastsWholeWould BeAgeEndsStudyStillsTryingMightSavingGivenHandsChildrenEarthFeelsPhilosophySoulTurnsDoneWarSavingsValuesHeartNaturalSecurityShowsSometimesTodayBodyCertainCreationExistenceCoursesIndividualInterestMomentsRealitySavings AccountsUniverseAbleSelfSubjectsCharacterPoliticalReligionActionDifferencesmore

Accounts Quotes

“It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.”

IfsThinkingKnowsShouldMeanFactsAsksStuffDifferencesForgetAliveAccountsBoxesSillyPleasantRosencrantz And GuildensternPleasant Thoughts
Author:Tom Stoppard
Create image

“It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely that many people will stop having children. By contrast, it is quite likely that my views either will be ignored or will be dismissed. As this response will account for a great deal of suffering between now and the demise of humanity, it cannot plausibly be thought of as philanthropic. That is not to say that it is motivated by any malice towards humans, but it does result from a self-deceptive indifference to the harm of coming into existence.”

PeopleHumansHeartChildrenDoeSelfSufferingHumanityResultsViewsDealsExistenceAccountsResponseHarmConclusionIndifferenceMotivatedContrastIgnoredUnlikelyMaliceDemiseDeceptivePhilanthropicHaving Children
Book:Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence
Create image

“Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.”

PeopleGivingMayHas BeensSaidLightMy OwnAbilityGeniusAchievementAccountsFellowsBoundsDearDebtChairsRemarkablePushingCigaretteLightingPossessingLuminousHolmesConductorWatsonUnderratedPushing Back
Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels
Create image

“There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.”

PeopleIfsMenMarriedAccountsDatingExcuseManageGood TimesRaysInsecureBank AccountsShaq
Book:He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Create image

“It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.”

PeopleWorldWayHumansWellsHelpingSeemsSchoolLife IsSimplePleasureOpinionRichAccountsComplexesWelcomeHuman LifeAmbiguityNuanceAttending
Author:John Green
Create image

“Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.”

PeopleIfsFeelsWellsYoungIndividualInterestPathClearNiceFailingAcceptanceFitTasteMassAdultsLet MeAccountsYoung AdultBotherBehaveBeing NiceSmoothSublimeDesirableIncumbentsArbiterSocializationLife PathBeing Popular
Author:Janeane Garofalo
Create image

“And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.”

MenFirstsEndsAgeLastsLossGriefSawsFateStrangeFirst TimeAccountsLaysWoundsWeariness
Book:The Silmarillion
Create image

“I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated”

IfsWritingMadeI CanMightDifferencesKnownEffectsOffersBenefitsLettersAccountsEmbraceCrumbs
Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir
Create image

“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning - because that ain't the time at all... When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.”

ThinkingWellsChildrenMadeDoneEasyTakenAccountsHillsValleysMeasuringHills And Valleys
Author:Lorraine Hansberry
Create image

“Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.”

IfsKnowsRealHardHandsTodayRememberTurnsHouseEasyWonderSunMetsShadowRiversAccountsStrangerSelfishWho I AmHardestSelfishnessPrizeThings In LifeDirtSunriseHardest ThingPromotionReal ThingsBank AccountsBeing SelfishDirt Roads
Book:Lighthousekeeping
Create image

“According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.”

ThinkingPersonsAgeReligiousLevelsProductsCircumstancesResearchPercentDeterminationAccountsCurrentsGenderIncomeOccupationGeneticsEthnicityAffiliation
Book:The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Create image

“Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God if something unexpected happens- they have their savings account. They don't need God to help them- they have their retirement plan in place. They don't genuinely seek out what life God would have them live- they have life figured and mapped out. They don't depend on God on a daily basis- their refrigerators are full and, for the most part, they are in good health. The truth is, their lives wouldn't look much different if they suddenly stopped believing in God.”

PeopleIfsNeedsBelieveLooksDifferentHelpingHappensPlansDependsTruth IsAccountsBasesSavingUnexpectedLive ByRetirementBelieve In GodTrust In GodSavingsGood HealthRefrigeratorsLukewarmNeed GodSavings AccountsSomething Unexpected
Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
Create image

“I would have thought even a certified idiot like Gabriel here would have taken account of it and notified someone." "Notified who?" asked Jem, not unreasonably. He had moved closer to Tessa as the conversation had continued. As they stood side by side, the backs of their hands brushed. "The Clave. The postman. Us. Anyone," said Will, shooting an irritated look at Gabriel, who was starting to get some color back and looked furious. "I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.”

LooksSaidHandsSidesTakenColorConversationProveAccountsMovedStartingShootingIdiotFuriousIrritatedGabrielJemPostman
Author:Cassandra Clare
Create image

“A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134”

IfsMenTryingLosesFailingAmbitionPagesOrdinaryDeserveAccountsFortuneSatisfactionObservationAdmirationLooking BackAspireMediocreConsolationRise Above
Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
Create image

“Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.”

PeopleKnowsWayGivingTryingI CanMy OwnAccountsWho I AmDescriptionGrantsHidingKnow MeOutlinesUnderstand MeTailorsPrecious Gifts
Book:The Woman Upstairs
Create image

“Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.”

KnowsMeanPersonsAbleSoundLove YouAccountsSilentSorryUnhappyBotherExtrasDullBothering You
Book:Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit
Create image

“He had to think he was Michael Wayland’s son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed a debt to, not me. It was on Michael’s account that they loved him, not mine.” “Maybe they loved him on his own account,” said Clary.”

ThinkingSaidMinesSonAccountsDebtProtected
Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
Create image

“The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.”

WayPlayBigsPastRememberTimeTurnsUniverseWaterRolesBreakAccountsEverydayGlassesIceEggsEveryday LifeBangsArrowsCosmologyCubesRemembering The PastOmeletsOrderlinessAsymmetry
Author:Sean M. Carroll
Create image

“Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.”

WorldTimeBitsExistenceInformationConceptsIdealsTasksConnectionsAccountsObstaclesPhysicsResistanceExplainingContinuumDiscrete
Author:John Archibald Wheeler
Create image

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.”

ThinkingShouldChildrenScienceNaturalProgressMachinesScientistAccountsTalesFairyMechanismFairy TaleImpressMachineryLaboratoryMarieTechniciansNatural PhenomenaScientific Progress
Author:Marie Curie
Create image