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Accountable Quotes (page 25)

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind. Jeanette Winterson
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy. Dee Dee Myers
Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. Patty Murray
Yousef Munayyer quote: "Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it."
Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it. Yousef Munayyer
Lewis Mumford quote: "One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the..."
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. Lewis Mumford
John Mortimer quote: "All the flower children were as alike as a congress of..."
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting. John Mortimer
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. Simon Conway Morris
It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility. Estelle Morris
My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. Karl Philipp Moritz
Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers. Evo Morales
What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system. Dennis Moore
Heather Mills quote: "If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank..."
If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions. Heather Mills
The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent. Gary Miller
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. John Stuart Mill
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. John Stuart Mill

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