Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I've talked to Bruce about it. He'll have kittens, and Hiro will have penguins, and August will completely throw a fit, but… — Lili St. Crow Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I'm going to grab something to eat," Lorelei said. "Would you like to come with me?" "No, thank you. I think I'll… — Thomas E. Sniegoski Copy Share Image
What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance.… — Philip French Copy Share Image
There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be.… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
