18 Unaccountable Quotes for You to Enjoy

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? Virginia Woolf

Me Passion Own Humming Machinery Unaccountable My Own Diving Roaring Most Always Brain Buried Soaring Then Mud Why Buzzing

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' Mark Twain

Life Disappointment Together Will My Life Year Doubt Out Unaccountable Must Freaks No Doubt Almighty Comet Greatest Said Coming Came Go Expect Again Next Next Year Now Here Two

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience. Robert Burns

Me Man Nothing Frame Unaccountable Seems Which Whole Conscience Thing

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Problem Job Promises Too President Deferred Easily Abandoned Unaccountable Dream Must Something Finish He Dropped Budget Beyond Another Readily Ball Becomes His Years Office Plan Fundamentally

ICE has only become increasingly militarized, brutal, and unaccountable. Ilhan Omar

Become Increasingly Unaccountable Only Brutal Ice

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. Lewis Thomas

Nature Humanity Behavior Nothing Live Other Our Unaccountable Unpredictable Threatening Obliged Toward Most Itself Which Strangest Each Phenomena

Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional. James Dobson

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. Vitruvius

Man Science Learning Memory Will Difficulty Other Unaccountable Able Variety Alliance Retain Perhaps His Branches Close May Different Explain Should Uninformed Appear Each

Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites. Jake Tapper

Needs Women Men Men And Women Own Members Unaccountable Run Posts Rise Know Traditional According Essentially Staff Whims Elected Special Who Even Washington Elites Appointed

A lot of the Citizens United problem could be solved if we knew where the money came from for all these ads. The companies create these entities with fake names - like 'Citizens for Nice Puppies' - which means that the sources of the money are unaccountable. Sheldon Whitehouse

Problem Money Nice Unaccountable Citizens Puppies Solved Entities Could Ads Knew Like Names Fake Came Sources Lot Where Which Create Means Companies United

Because these credit agencies operate in the dark, they are allowed to be terribly unfair and unaccountable. Brian Schatz

Dark Unfair Unaccountable Allowed Operate Terribly Because Agencies Credit

Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans. Tahl Raz

Today Sports Fans Heroes Few Too Unaccountable Fraudulent District Lawsuits Troubled Absurd Days Boxing Always Mob Offshore Disgusted Bodies Shots Notorious Many Even

Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based. Sue Gardner

Censorship Internet Made Important Think Increasingly Wikipedia Corporate Unaccountable Seeing Web Open Important Decisions Industry Shift Mobile Governments Hands Experienced Decisions Groups Gardens Players