Reckonings Quotes

#1. You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

Dana Spiotta

#2. The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

Franjo Tudjman

#3. It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

Wendell Berry

#4. I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

William E. Gladstone

#6. Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

Luis Suarez

#7. This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn't a place for me.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Good is not enough. You've got to be great.

Simon Cowell

#9. Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua.

Stephen Kinzer

#10. That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.

James A. Owen

#11. The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

Marshall McLuhan

#12. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

Henry Wotton

#13. When I am generous, I enjoy blessings that far exceed whatever selfish pleasure I can grab for myself.

Lori Hatcher

#14. Dreams do not exist within the realm of hours or minutes or any measure of the day. They live between the tick and the tock. Before the toiling of the bell, past the dawn, and beyond the velvet night.

William Joyce