#account

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#admitted #am #confusion #ever #every

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#alliance #appear #branches #close #different

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#acquired #florist #grocer #had #matrimony

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ↗

— Will Rogers

#being #by the people #democracy #does #four

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. ↗

— Ray Romano

#accountant #even #father #had #hugged

It was accountability that Nixon feared. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#feared #nixon

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#critics #might #our #popularity #some

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#agreement #am #board #broad #capitals

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#as far as #deal #far #get #know