Quotes of: Accordance Keyword

Since you dismissed your maid,” he said, “I suppose it will be up to me to undress you.” “That is most chivalrous of you, my lord.

Love According to Lily

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

It's a mistake to think we have to be lovely to be loved by humans beings or by God.

Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

The Passion According to G.H.

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

George Matthew Adams

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Remy de Gourmont

You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

Ted Danson

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

The Over Soul According to Emerson

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Immanuel Kant

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it.

Francis de Sales

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Karl Marx

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. Proverbs 26.5

Biblical

The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.

The World According to Bertie

Neighbours are given to us on the same basis as we are given our families. There is no element of choice involved - none at all.

The World According to Bertie

No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.

The World According to Bertie

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

The World According to Garp

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!

The Over Soul According to Emerson