Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
Edward Thorndike

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Sergei Eisenstein

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Euripides

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
James C. Maxwell

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
Dave Obey

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
Marvin Harris

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.
Rocco Buttiglione

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.
Michael I. Rostovtzeff

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

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

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
Christopher Columbus

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.
John Buford

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose Bierce

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
George Henry Lewes

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
Leo Strauss

Going home must be like going to render an account.
Joseph Conrad

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
Anne Wilson Schaef