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Reckoning Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Reckoning Quotes
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov
- In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — Henry David Thoreau
- The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou… — Bahá'u'lláh
- And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to… — Janet Morris
- Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own… — Ella Maillart
- Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity… — Thomas Jefferson
- In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin