#account

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#accounts #balance #current #deficit #items

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! ↗

— David Pratt

#actions #being #being honest #called #holding

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

#analysis #answer #barbarian #behaviour #clear

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#biased #both #crimes #data #dead

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#always #else #himself #i #i think

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#leadership #politics #leadership

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money. ↗

— Rick Wright

#big #control #else #everything #fact

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got. ↗

— Andrew Young

#got #influence #less #like #more

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly. ↗

— Simone Weil

#courage #honesty #inspiration #status-quo #truth

If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#change #don-t #my #on #change