Reckoning Quotes - Page 2

• This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

  Rumi

  Essence, Should, Knows

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• 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. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.

  Matthew Henry

  Children, Home, House

  "Daily Communion with God".

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• 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

  Mean, Looks, Movement

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• 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

  Running, Distance, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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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

  Hurt, Prayer, Years

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• 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

  Love, Passionate, Ifs

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• 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

  People, Weight, Want

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• The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Men, Ideas

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• 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

  Travel, Self, Giving

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• 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

  Party, Broken, Tea

  "Paul thumps Grayson; Conway edges Mongiardo" by Jack Brammer, www.kentucky.com. May 19, 2010.

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• By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Leadership, Kings, Rights

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• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Usual, Film

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• We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.

  Moshe Dayan

  Blood, Gaza Strip, Demand

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

  Max Frisch

  Believe, Fate, Used

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• 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

  Children, Men, Understanding

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.89

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• If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Children, Lying, Israel

  "Israel Was Everthing" by Martin Gilbert, www.nytimes.com. June 21, 1987.

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• In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

  Isaac Asimov

  People, Not Good Enough, Good Enough

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• Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

  Thomas Nagel

  Humility, Temptation, Intellectual

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

  John W. Gardner

  Karma, Men, Wise Words

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• The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Hurt, Dark, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.13, Vintage

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• 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

  Men, Blood, Glory

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.31, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials and even private figures because they don't have editors and they don't have fact checkers and they don't have lawyers. There is going to be a price to pay somewhere down the line.

  Rod Lurie

  Book, Editors, Rumor

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 2, 2009.

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• 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

  Revenge, Return, Reconciliation

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• Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

  Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay

  Eugenics, Cry, Socialism

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• Creation did not take millions of years. We can hardly be justified in trying to harmonize the days of creation with the extended periods of millions of years according to the reckoning of the so-called scientists.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Years, Trying, Justified

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