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

His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning. — Maxine Hong Kingston

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

And I knew that tone, the pleading, the fear that was sitting like a spiked ball in his chest. He'd been left behind too, maybe more than I had. — Lili St. Crow

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. — Iain Banks

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. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

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. — Sandie Shaw

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

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. — Rumi

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

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she. — William Shakespeare

Sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost, and sometimes we take it upon ourselves to burn them to ashes. — Helen Macdonald

All of us have days in our lives, perhaps three or four at the most, when what we might call disparate events converge. — Dexter Palmer

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

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

I shouldn't even exist. Neither should they. What's the difference between destroying me and destroying them?" - Lexia Graham — Katheryn J. Avila

He (Joe Strummer) was one of the great English rock stars, bold and influential beyond reckoning. We could do with another one like him, right now. — David Sinclair

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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. — Sophocles

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

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. — Paul Taylor

For Ming Kai's nose - which, like so many Chinese organs, was advanced beyond the reckoning of his Caucasian brother - — Daniel Wallace

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

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

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism! — Elizabeth A. Sherman

The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There's going to be a reckoning eventually. — Colleen Houck

The wishes we make in the dark have consequences, and the Lord of Mischief will call their reckoning — S. Jae-Jones

The Lord works in mysterious ways, all right. Wish a baby dead, get another one in return as punishment. This is my reckoning. — Amy Lukavics

The G.O.P. and the conservative establishment in America are on the verge of a reckoning. — JP Bernbach

Consider the coincidences that you do not see. - Fabian Snowstrom, A Vampire's Reckoning — Vanessa Fewings

We carry the lives we've imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost. — Helen Macdonald

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. — Neale Donald Walsch

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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? — Isaiah

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning. — Charles Spurgeon

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

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

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming. — Beck

The enemy is strong beyond our reckoning, yet we have a hope at which he has not guessed. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. — G.K. Chesterton

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows? — Harry S. Truman

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