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Accounting Quotes

I have to say accounting almost killed me.

Interview with Timea Bacinszky, www.ubitennis.net. August 28, 2014.

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

Interview with Bill O'Reilly (2002), later quoted in Larry W. Poland "Chasm: Crossing the Divide Between Hollywood and People of Faith" (p. 73), June 1, 2014.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

James Crumley (2016). “The Wrong Case”, p.10, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

There is no accounting for tastes.

Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.297

I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.

Andrea Dworkin (2010). “Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

There is no accounting for human beings.

Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.185, Mark Twain

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

"Ebbers found guilty over $11bn fraud at WorldCom" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2005.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1970). “Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution: With a Memoir of Mrs. Adams”, Ayer Company Pub