The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.
I really didn't settle stuff spiritually until I was 17 years of age. But through my teenage years I just knew that someday I had to settle accounts and get things straightened up and move in that direction.
If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
If you eat food or produce, you should take into account where that food comes from.
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-
There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.
There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.
It's kind of like. . . with our own checking accounts, just because it's in there doesn't mean you should spend it or can spend it. You know that you have the rent coming.
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.
Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-lovehate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.