Reckoning Quotes

94 quotes by 81 authors

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. — Jeanette Winterson
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. — William Shakespeare
But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that… — Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was… — Robert James Waller
But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of… — Joshua Chamberlain
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… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect… — Cormac McCarthy
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be… — Iris Murdoch
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of… — Cormac McCarthy
Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive. — Brandon Mull
For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it… — Elizabeth Goudge
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,… — H P Lovecraft
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of… — Cormac McCarthy
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't,… — Richelle Mead
The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west… — Cormac McCarthy
And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first… — Winston Churchill
And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what… — Melina Marchetta

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