Quotes About Account

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Hacks and attacks happen. Safety Netiquette helps. Periodic account reconciliation is required. Check.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

History is not what happened but what is written down

History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The Prison Plumb Line to explore all three.

However, not even science could account for all the variables that people introduced to the equation.

What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject's blind self absorption and the journalist's skepticism. Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

with which we have attempted to clothe it; I am trying — as in the book that follows — to remove the whole subject from the plane of morality and to give an objective account of the expansion of the United States.

With his addition of a birth and infancy account, Matthew makes his Gospel conform more closely to the format of ancient biography.

Taking turns, they exchanged tales quickly, the haste in their voices sometimes blurring the words, for greater than their desire to be heard was the hunger to tell. One could hear it in the fervor of the declarations, the obscenities shouted when something could not be remembered fast enough, when a stutter allowed another speaker to race into his account without the stutterer having completed his.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

I get on Facebook, and I love it. Then one day, I get a message that says, 'Your account has been deleted.' I click on the link to see why it was deleted, and it says, 'Your account has been suspended because members are not allowed to impersonate celebrities.'