Quotes of: Accordance Keyword

No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.

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A rumble gurgled through the space between them. "Was that you?" She looked down. "Was that me?" "That noise. It sounded like a growl." Well according to you, I am a ferocious car burglar.

Anything but Sweet

New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

Don’t cluster too much plans to do within a relatively minimum time. As beginner, you must not cut your coat according to your elder brother’s size. Know your limit.

Shaping the dream

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.

My Country And My People

Smartass Disciple: Master, why do some people so stubborn and unruly ? Master of Stupidity: Only when you want them do according to your wish.

Master of Stupidity

I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.

The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

This isn’t a real marriage." “Not according to the state of Nevada,” I said cheerfully. “We’ve got the paperwork to prove it. Get us a laptop, and we can all look at the wedding pictures together.

Silver Shadows

That everything in nature has “the appearance” of design is not exactly evidence against design. According to Dawkins, though, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is almost certainly something else.

A Time of Change

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement...

War and Peace

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

Jason Katims

Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in acco...

Samantha Power

Everybody comes with prejudices, colored glasses on their eyes. Then they see everything colored according to their glasses. Yes, a few people come just like you, unprejudiced, without any idea gathered from yellow journalism.

Osho

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Plato

In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.

Paul Ryan