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There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. -- Lorna Luft
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. -- Iain Banks
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. -- Constance Baker Motley
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. -- George Eliot
My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow. -- Albert Gubay
Consider the coincidences that you do not see. - Fabian Snowstrom, A Vampire's Reckoning -- Vanessa Fewings
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today. -- Moshe Dayan
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives. -- Rumi
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. -- Isaac Asimov
Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently. -- Rand Paul
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. -- Ella Maillart
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. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.' -- Jimmy Carter
Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. -- William Shakespeare
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. -- John W. Gardner
In life, people will take you at your own reckoning. -- Isaac Asimov
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. -- Anthony Trollope
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. -- Rumi
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. -- Al-Ghazali
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences. -- H. P. Lovecraft
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical. -- William Shakespeare
We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God. -- Therese of Lisieux
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship the most valuable of our family-comforts ... A church in the house will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you. -- Matthew Henry
Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side. -- Thomas Jefferson
Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism! -- Elizabeth A. Sherman
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. -- Nancy Gibbs
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. -- Max Frisch
You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning. -- Wilbur Ross
Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. -- Anthony Trollope
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. -- Paul Taylor
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest. -- Wole Soyinka
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 doesn't hurt, either. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush. -- John Spratt
Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all. -- Frank Rich
When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here. -- Meghan Daum
I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid. -- Karen Russell
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. -- Barry Unsworth
We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse. -- Michael Leunig
To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning. -- Charles Spurgeon
Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism! -- Elizabeth A. Sherman
Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive. -- Brandon Mull
No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head. -- William Shakespeare
Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read. -- Omar Khayyam
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement. -- Andrew Sullivan
Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning. -- Richard Sibbes
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come. -- Thomas Jefferson
Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. -- Neale Donald Walsch
By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore. -- Merlin Mann
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming. -- Beck
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. -- Jeanette Winterson
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
My debt to you, BelovÃ¨d, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day. -- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning. -- Lloyd Alexander
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. -- Neville Cardus
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 -- Paul Taylor
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. -- Walter Raleigh
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! -- William Shakespeare
You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. -- Jeanette Winterson
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! -- Dana Gould
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. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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? -- Isaiah
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. -- Lee Iacocca
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. -- Sophocles
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. --
If a fae sorcerer, or sorcerers, are using necromancy to raise the dead they need to be stopped. No matter what happens, we need to bring a reckoning.--Catherine -- Chris Pavesic
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. -- Kiese Laymon
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. -- Thomas Hobbes
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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. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. -- Jeanette Winterson
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh. -- Kathleen Parker
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. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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