#accounts

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#accounts #alcohol #attribute #better #body

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. ↗

— Rand Paul

#become #children #doctors #grandfather #his

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#books #court #early #high #high quality

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#brokers #business #commercial #construction #customers

My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#act #bank #certificates #deposit #earned

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#american #american indians #asia #certain #collected

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. ↗

— Jean Houston

#accounts #artists #athletes #beings #believe

Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass. ↗

— Evan Davis

#amount #cent #country #does #empty

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#approximately #attending #buses #children #day