#account

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#great #i #love #religion #sin

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#bestowed #created #faculties #god #him

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society. ↗

— John Grierson

#appreciation #attend #changes #creative #forces

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#anomaly #apparent #corps #existence #interest

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability. ↗

— Campbell Newman

#charge #clear #department #i #line

The advantage of online banking is that you can pay bills superfast, and your account is automatically credited or debited for each deposit and payment, making it easier to stay on track. ↗

— Suze Orman

#advantage #automatically #banking #bills #credited

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. ↗

— James Payn

#actions #adopt #asterisks #better #blanks

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. ↗

— Witold Pilecki

#arrested #ask #carried #deciding #had

I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing. ↗

— J. T. Walsh

#believe #going #i #i do #i think

The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private affairs. With hypothetical advanced aliens residing at a safely distant address in the hypothetical multiverse, that is - to the relief of folks like Gribbin, Dawkins and the New Scientist - manifestly not the case. ↗

— David Klinghoffer

#aliens #dawkins #extraterrestrials #id #intelligent-design