#account

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#trust #men

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability. ↗

— David McCullough

#morality #technology #nature

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#doing-right #life #motivational #responsibility #life

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#against #attorneys #black #entertainers #financial

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#because #bit #deal #down #fragment

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#believe #christians #creation #description #different

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#insist #money #spending #time #us

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#acting #bother #figure #food #i

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#chance #few #gift #happens #turn

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#characteristics #having #i #i think #increase