Reckoning Quotes

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 being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

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

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.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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

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

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

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 will take you at your own reckoning.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.