Quotes of: Accordance Keyword

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their...

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Dolores Umbridge: Let me make this quite plain. You have been told that a certain Dark Wizard is at large once again. This is a lie. Harry Potter: It's not a lie! I saw him. I fought him. Dolores Umbridge: [shouting] Detention, Mr. Potter! Harry Pott...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

One of the best stories of the early Christian desert hermits goes like this: ‘Abbe Lot came to Abbe Joseph and said: Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and accor...

Annie Dillard

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

Jane Alexander

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

The Analects of Confucius

According to Joss [Whedon], “TV is a question, movies are an answer.

Joss Whedon: The Biography

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Margaret Cavendish

You need to choose your association according to your vision.

Onyi Anyado

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Oscar de la Renta

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

Placido Domingo

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount, Jr.

A smile is only complete when the face and the whole body is in one accord

Temitayo A

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

Terry Riley

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Stephen Breyer

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

Ella Maillart

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

Lysander Spooner

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

Josh McDowell

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

George Weah

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

Ai Weiwei

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Edward Walker