Top 164 Reckoning Quotes & Sayings

If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

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

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

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

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

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

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

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.

There isn't a day when I don't look in the mirror and think, 'How in the hell did I become a conservative Republican?' It's still a weird reckoning, because it shouldn't have happened.

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

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.

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.

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

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

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.

One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'

Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.

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.

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.

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

'The Reckoning' is one of my proudest hours. I love that episode so much.

One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.

There is a reckoning coming, a reckoning between humanity and the Jewish people which will cause the very heavens to darken and the very devils in hell to hide their faces in shock and terror. You might say we owe them a Holocaust. We've been paying their bill for fifty years, and at some point we're finally going to get what we've paid for.

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.

Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

What do we value more: an economic system which privileges profit above all other considerations, or the continued existence of human civilisation as we recognise it? A reckoning is coming.

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

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.

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 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.

By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

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.

I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.

...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.

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.

My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

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

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.

Like any good RPG, 'Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning' is adept at digging its claws into that part of your brain that just loves accomplishing things.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

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.

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.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

I wanted to really delve into the idea of reckoning with difficult things in one's past - and celebrating the joyful things, and honoring the stories that have made me who I am.

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

Gamergate should have been a time of reckoning for the gaming community, which had long been rife with sexism and misogyny. It wasn't.