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  • I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running. -- Larry Wall
  • If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. -- Nikolai Gogol
  • Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. -- William Howard Taft
  • All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. -- Earl Nightingale
  • The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. -- Ovid
  • The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. -- John Cage
  • What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. -- Walter Martin
  • A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. -- Sigmund Freud
  • We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas. -- Henry Reed
  • That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle. -- Hassan Nasrallah
  • Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. -- Socrates
  • There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. -- Thomas Paine
  • When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. -- Willa Cather
  • Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. -- Lech Walesa
  • I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. -- Elizabeth I
  • Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. -- Anais Nin
  • Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another. -- Richard Perle
  • The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences -- Neal Shusterman
  • One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man. -- Nelson A. Miles
  • According to our constitution, political emigres have the right to reside on our territory. We accord them the right of asylum, the same as the United States accords the right of asylum to political emigres. -- Joseph Stalin
  • Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord. -- Joseph Addison
  • You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. -- Franz Kafka
  • It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you. -- Rajneesh
  • My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I. -- Charles V
  • Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ. -- John Clayton
  • The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord. -- Bao Dai
  • The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
  • The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture. -- Azim Premji
  • The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. -- Alexander Pope
  • Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul. -- Robert Grosseteste
  • Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century. -- Arthur Peacocke
  • To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. -- Helena Blavatsky
  • A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. -- Christopher Alexander
  • Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment. -- Michael Tippett
  • Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord. -- Mary Jane Holmes
  • Germany will never break the peace of its own accord. -- Adolf Hitler
  • When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. -- Oscar Wilde
  • It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. -- Francis Bacon
  • When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed. -- Zhuangzi
  • Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • If I'm going to lose, I'd rather lose on my own accord. -- Donnis
  • Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony. -- Laini Taylor
  • Your mind, your heart, and your balls gotta be in one accord -- Kimbo Slice
  • First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord. -- Rajneesh
  • All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression. -- Luc de Clapiers
  • Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak. -- Learned Hand
  • Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord. -- Paul Klee
  • Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. -- Ray Bradbury
  • If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go. -- Laozi
  • Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature -- Christopher Ryan
  • A smile is only complete when the face and the whole body is in one accord -- Temitayo A
  • Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect -- Joan Dunayer
  • Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. -- Seneca the Younger
  • A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God. -- D. Todd Christofferson
  • Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I. -- Charles V
  • External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind. -- Jean-Georges Noverre
  • To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation. If someone throws a rock, you duck. -- Rami M. Shapiro
  • What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. -- Seneca the Younger
  • The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. -- John Cage
  • To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. -- John Dryden
  • Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue. -- Ernest Sosa
  • Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord. -- J. A. Jance
  • In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. -- Ian Peebles
  • I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace. -- Edward Said
  • Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.... -- Khalil Gibran
  • When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord. -- Bao Dai
  • Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. -- Victor Hugo
  • Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions. -- Arsenius the Great
  • If we are open only to discoveries which will accord with what we know already, we may as well stay shut. -- Alan Watts
  • One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors. -- Jacques Chirac
  • The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things. -- Joanne Harris
  • To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns. -- Frank Gaffney
  • My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me. -- Sathya Sai Baba
  • Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • My body is in accord with my mind, my mind with my energies, my energies with my spirit, my spirit with Nothing. -- Lie Yukou
  • I will keep my body charged with energy for fulfillment of my purpose, in accord with that which is commanded of me... -- Walter Russell
  • I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? -- Hermann Hesse
  • The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
  • The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work. -- Democritus
  • My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. -- Jean Cocteau
  • What will allow you to enter the world of great relationships is living in accord with the simple but powerful Laws of Love. -- Chris Prentiss
  • All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility. -- John Cassian
  • Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations. -- Anthony Daniels
  • I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. -- Rumi
  • Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation. -- Dallas Willard
  • I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world. -- Pete Townshend
  • My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down. -- Wendy Mass
  • Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. -- John Milton
  • If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights. -- Jacob Schiff
  • When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord. -- Nuno Oliveira
  • The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. -- Sun Tzu
  • So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord. -- Laozi
  • Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord. -- Sengcan
  • The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population. -- Reid Bryson
  • Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different. -- Gordon Smith
  • Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate. -- Yves Klein
  • It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles. -- Joan Robinson
  • God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good. -- Jerry Bridges
  • One of the biggest lessons we can learn in life is to do everything possible to reach an accord with the individual we are having trouble with. -- Harold Klemp
  • 5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. -- Sun Tzu
  • Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness. -- Rajneesh
  • He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed. -- Seneca the Younger
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