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Quotes About Reckoning

There's a Man Goin' Round Taking Names —AUTHOR UNKNOWN
~ Unknown
with the damage meter still clicking away.
~ John Grisham
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
~ Isaac Asimov
Until now, I had reckoned only that I had not the 'gift' for writing; now M. de Norpois took from me the ambition also.
~ Marcel Proust
The Papacy, we are told, reckons by centuries, and indeed may perhaps not bother to reckon time at all, since its goal is in eternity.
~ Marcel Proust
Let the punishment match the offense.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
What if grief isn't only missing people and being sad? That's how we usually think about it. But what if it's just -- reckoning with their being gone and with knowing they're never coming back?
~ Marisa de los Santos
For more than half a century, the reason for the Carter Family's breakup has been a matter of uninformed reckoning. And no one in the family would talk about it. Not Maybelle, not Sara, and certainly not A.P.
~ Unknown
But he starting to confuse representing people with owning them, and soon even he going need a reckoning.
~ Marlon James
God pays back debts without money.
~ Martina Cole
The first rule of modern commercial media is you're allowed to screw up, in concert. So there was no reckoning for the WMD mess. The chief offenders kept perches or failed up.
~ Matt Taibbi
In response the Sun asserted that Bennett's "only chance of dying an upright man will be that of hanging perpendicularly upon a rope.")
~ Unknown
You were there in a place where you didn't belong, where things were glimpsed for which you would have to pay and where things went unglimpsed for which you would also have to pay, a place where they didn't play with the mystery but killed you straight off for trespassing.
~ Michael Herr
He who poured water on the ground seizes the mighty in misery.
~ Unknown
Và r?i c?ng có n?i s? b?n ch?n ?ó, th?nh tho?ng, tr??c vi?n c?nh các vai ph? mà ta ?? l?i sau l?ng có th? tìm th?y ta mà ?òi tính s?.
~ Patrick Modiano
Nay, a reckoning I might ask For the life, love, liberty That through thee I've lost so long: Thine 'tis rather to thank me, That I do not claim from thee Compensation for my wrong.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud.
~ Psalm 94:2
What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
~ Isaiah 10:3
Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
~ Isaiah 10:33
But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
~ Isaiah 14:15
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
~ Jeremiah 51:33
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBehold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
~ Ezekiel 26:3