#according

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. ↗

— Allen Tate

#according #anything #because #become #been

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers. ↗

— Donald Cram

#by the time #careers #careful #children #college

I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming. ↗

— Uberto Crescenti

#against #am #causes #changes #climatic

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#accordingly #changed #i #scope #somewhat

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#extremely #grass #grows #horse #man

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#also #always #been #continuing #done

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#act #disproportionate #happens #his #inclination

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#action #advance #aimless #days #may

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#always #deserves #familiar #features #had

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#body #culture #form #greenland #people