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The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors. — Donald Sadoway

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years. — Sara Blakely

Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good ... what account have I to give for my long years? — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac. — Jean-Francois Cope

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? — Jean Paul

If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister. — Rachel Sklar

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions. — Umar

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy. — Golda Meir

The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer. — Laurie Glimcher

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They cast injustice and filth at the solitary one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives. — John Zerzan

I account this world a tedious theater,
For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will. — John Webster

You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz. — Anais Nin

Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do. — James Fenton

For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable? — Clifford Whittingham Beers

Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness. — Bryant McGill

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity — Robert Browning

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. — Oscar Wilde

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being. — George Washington

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart. — E. O. Wilson

Lincoln again got his name prominently mentioned in the New York Tribune, though this time it was for allegedly pumping up his expense account. — Harold Holzer

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality. — Nancy Pearcey

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour. — Joseph Wood Krutch

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley

If I had a dollar for every time I smiled secretly having you in my mind I think my bank account would show up millions. — Melville Elijah Stone

The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account. — Harold Ford Jr.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing. — Tom Hiddleston

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius — William Crashaw

One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills. — Marco Rubio

Love is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone calling him to account for what he does. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account! — Jane Pierce

Some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent. — Billy Graham

I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account! — Blake Lively

Only the schools' inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25. — George Leonard

Always account for each unit of passing time — Sunday Adelaja

As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. — Robert Green Ingersoll

We are, for all our polish, of little
stature, and, as human lives,
compared with authentic martyrs,
of no account. — W. H. Auden

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people. — E.W. Howe

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men? — Henry David Thoreau

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. — Benjamin Disraeli

He went on saying "No" to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex. — Virginia Woolf

I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave. — Adam McKay

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me. — Raymond Moody

You can't read good-night stories to your bank account, or brush its hair, or teach it how to ride a bike for the first time. — Marko Kloos

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged. — Jane Austen

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good. — Jonathan Edwards

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things. — Aeschylus

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you. — George Eliot

I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for. — Charis Wilson

To explain 'why' means to find causal connections that account for the occurrence of this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others. — Yuval Noah Harari

A man has no more right to an opinion for which he cannot account than for a glass of beer for which he cannot pay. — Anonymous

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box. — Michael Behe

For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
I have a truant been to chivalry;
And so I hear he doth account me too. — William Shakespeare

Everyone gets tested. You never see it coming. But sooner or later the moment arrives and you have to account for yourself. — Adam Baker

The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence. — John H. Walton

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random. — John Guare

Everyday I awake with good health, I credit my bank account with a billion dollar, 'hidden deposit'. Conceptually, the minimum I would pay for it. — Garry Fitchett

But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good? — William Peter Blatty

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for. — Talulah Riley

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate! — John Green

Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success. — Bobby Darnell

If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace. — Robert Cailliau

Loving others means being willing to do things for their benefit more than your own. And sometimes that looks like a Facebook account! — Mandy J. Hoffman

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. — Philip Yancey

I am sure vegetarians must also account for a lot of gases. Look how many beans they eat. — Antony Worrall Thompson

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau

Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything. — George Ade

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. — Matthew Henry

If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection. — Umar

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

I'll just let the hair speak for itself. It's got a Twitter account, so it actually does more speaking than I probably do on Twitter. — Milos Raonic

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met. — William, Saroyan

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ... — Susan Sontag

the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle. — Ted Sargent

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence. — Jean-Baptiste Say

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Then I would make each minute into a whole lifetime, I would lose nothing, would account for each minute, waste nothing in vain! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. — Stephen Fry

To be noble, ... was to account for the life you lived, to always account for your mistakes, and to have dignity and worth. — Gail Tsukiyama

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

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories? — Virginia Woolf

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. — Robert A. Heinlein

If you have hope for the future you have true riches; no matter how much you have in your account — Myles Munroe

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species. — Charles Darwin

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died. — Mercedes McCambridge

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy — R.A. Salvatore

The story of Isaac and Rebekah is an account of what was, but not necessarily of what should be for all of God's people. — Gary L. Thomas

God already knowed what you was gon' pray for befo' you was eva born. He done already took yo' requests into account when he was planning de world. — Daniel Black

What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer. — Coreen T. Sol

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases. — Elijah Cummings

I must give an account for what I've done. — Russell Johnson

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. — Glen Duncan

Someday each one of us will have to account to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for what we have done with His name. — Mervyn B. Arnold

Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account. — Thomas Aquinas

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? — Rudyard Kipling

The older one gets, the harder it is to account for time. Children ask: "Are we there yet?" Adults: "How did we get here so quickly?" Somehow, — Jonathan Safran Foer