Reckoning Quotes
Reckoning Quote of the day
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.
If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.
No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.
Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.
A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want
Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.
What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!
Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.
Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.
If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.
I'm only afraid of dying if I'm to be held accountable for what I did while living. If there's no God or reckoning, I'm like, whew!
By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.
I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.
