Reckoning Quotes - Page 4

• I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Choices, Imperfect

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wmra.org. November 3, 2016.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Summer, Spring, Mean

  13 Copiar cita

• It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

  Robert James Waller

  Moving, Ignorance, Years

  6 Copiar cita

• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Vida, Creatividad, Hombres

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all. ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Bullying, Night

  7 Copiar cita

• I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make our books, the artists who make our pictures, but in gauging the true culture of the nation and reckoning its tensile strength, let the student not neglect hockey

  Bruce Hutchison

  Book, Hockey, Artist

  4 Copiar cita

• Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Book, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.122, Vintage

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• ¿Qué es el honor? una palabra. ¿Qué hay en esa palabra honor? ¿Qué es ese honor? Aire. ¡Un ajuste de cuentas! ¿Quién lo tiene? El que murió el miércoles. ¿Lo siente? No. ¿Lo oye? No.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Honor, Falstaff

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. [131]

  29 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

  Winston Churchill

  Recovery, Years, Cups

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  20 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Fate, Destiny

  4 Copiar cita

• La verdad sobre el mundo, dijo, es que todo es posible. Si no lo hubieras visto todo desde el nacimiento y, por tanto, desangrado su extrañeza, te parecería lo que es: un espectáculo de magia, un sueño febril, un trance poblado de quimeras que no tienen análogo ni precedente, un carnaval itinerante, un espectáculo de carpas migratorias cuyo destino final, después de muchos lanzamientos en muchos campos embarrados, es indescriptible y calamitoso.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Medicine, Fields

  4 Copiar cita

• Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

  Richelle Mead

  Taken, Angel, Two

  4 Copiar cita

• The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pasado, Luna, Azul

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Spiritual, Dog, Mean

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com. June 2014.

  69 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Tal vez nada sería una lección para nosotros si no llegara demasiado tarde. Es bueno que sintamos que la vida es un ajuste de cuentas que no podemos hacer dos veces; no hay enmienda real en este mundo, como tampoco puedes enmendar una resta equivocada haciendo bien tu suma.

  George Eliot

  Vida, Real, Demasiado Tarde

  George Eliot (2016). "Complete Works Of George Eliot", p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive.

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.

  Al Gore

  Government, Class, Iraq

  "A Commentary on the War Against Terror: Our Larger Tasks". Address to the Council on Foreign Relations, February 12, 2002.

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  Suicide, Thursday, Spices

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). "La señora de las especias", Doubleday

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Según mis cálculos, estoy a unos 100 kilómetros de Pathfinder. Técnicamente se llama "Carl Sagan Memorial Station". Pero con el debido respeto a Carl, puedo llamarla como me dé la gana. Soy el Rey de Marte.

  Andy Weir

  Kings, Memorial, Want

  6 Copiar cita

• The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Knowledge, Math

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Porque los Miembros de la Asamblea, teniendo ante sus ojos tantos casos fatales de errores y falsedades, en los que la mayor parte de la humanidad ha vagado durante tanto tiempo, porque confiaban sólo en la fuerza de la Razón humana, han comenzado de nuevo a corregir todas las Hipótesis por el sentido, como los Marineros hacen sus Cálculos muertos por Observaciones Celestes; y para este propósito ha sido su principal empeño ampliar y fortalecer los Sentidos por la Medicina, y por los Instrumentos externos que son apropiados para sus trabajos particulares.

  Robert Hooke

  Eye, Science, Medicine

  34 Copiar cita

• By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

  Merlin Mann

  Coffee, Ironic, Mosaics

  4 Copiar cita

• Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.

  M. King Hubbert

  Two, Growth, Culture

  7 Copiar cita

• 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

  Heart, Scare, Paper

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.28, Counterpoint

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  Thinking, Years, Lunch

  4 Copiar cita

• Porque cuando el corazón insiste en su destino, resistiendo al encanto general, entonces la agonía es grande; también el peligro. Sin embargo, las fuerzas se habrán puesto en movimiento más allá del cálculo de los sentidos. Las secuencias de acontecimientos de los rincones del mundo se unirán gradualmente, y los milagros de la coincidencia harán que suceda lo inevitable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Destiny, Agony

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.196, New World Library

  18 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente