Accounts Quotes - Page 2
He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.
Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”
1267 OpusMajus, pt.4, ch.1 (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).
Mark Twain (2008). “Mark Twain's Speeches: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.123, ReadHowYouWant.com
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”
When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
Dorothy Parker (1996). “The Uncollected Dorothy Parker”, Bloomsbury Academic
Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company
The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
David Bentley Hart (2013). “The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss”, p.80, Yale University Press
I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
Daniel Defoe (2007). “Moll Flanders”, p.167, Book Jungle