Accounts Quotes

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers’ accounts.

All science requires mathematics.

By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!

I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

Take account of yourselves before you are brought to account.

Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.

Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable!

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.

Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling

The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Hillary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.