Reckoning Quotes
94 quotes by 81 authors
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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…
— Isaac Asimov
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There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint…
— J. William Fulbright
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I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make…
— Bruce Hutchison
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In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her…
— Arthur Miller
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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force…
— Janet Morris
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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…
— Ella Maillart
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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…
— Sandie Shaw
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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…
— Al-Ghazali
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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…
— David Ben-Gurion
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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,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help…
— Murray Rothbard
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for…
— Lord Kelvin
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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
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence…
— Andrew Solomon
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Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave…
— Jodie Foster
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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
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And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations…
— Thomas Hobbes
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