Quotes of: Accounting Keyword

When one person got involved, it took everybody else along. I went to jail first, but my entire family soon joined the Movement. One time, Faith & I ended up at home w all the babies from 2 households, because the mamas & the other older sisters were...

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature. They can even influence how we raise our kids, how we vote and volunteer in our communities, as well as the...

Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his ...

Lysander Spooner

You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it. Which is the "true" or "valid" experience? Which tells you most about the thing? And you can hardly ask the question without noticing that for the last fifty ye...

C.S. Lewis

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Chapterhouse: Dune

There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.

Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Beloved

When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.

John Rhys-Davies

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.

Barbara Boxer

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of a...

Gary Wright

Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you.

44 Days of Leadership

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination

The History of Mr. Polly

The (extremely lavish set) was created by a transparency, a fine gauze, finely painted. According to the theatre accounts, it cost 241 ducats, 91 ducats more than Rossini was paid for the music.

Rossini

Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.

Stealing Athena

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

South of Broad

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

The Scriptlings

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.

Shaping the dream

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

The News: A User's Manual