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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 littlestature, 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
