There Will Be A Reckoning Quotes

#1. (...) or there will be a reckoning!

Terry Pratchett

#2. I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.

Darl McBride

#3. 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 it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#4. 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

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

Max Frisch

#6. The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.

Lord Kelvin

#7. 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

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

Elizabeth A. Sherman

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

Constance Baker Motley

#10. You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation.
There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just

Solomon Northup

#12. 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 is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

#13. 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

#14. Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

Omar Khayyam

#15. 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

#16. I'm going to grab something to eat," Lorelei said. "Would you like to come with me?"
"No, thank you. I think I'll just stay here with him." Gabriel slowly lowered his face to rest his chin upon the bed near Aaron's frighteningly still hand.
"I'm not feeling very hungry.

Thomas E. Sniegoski

#17. But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you ... more proud ...

Anna Akhmatova