#reckoning

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

— Constance Baker Motley

#civil #civil rights #had #king #leader

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

— Iain Banks

#books #films #make #reckoning #usual

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#our #our lives #reckoning #time

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. ↗

— Rand Paul

#day #differently #done #encountering #horribly

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

#doing #enough #get #lot #own

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. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#aspects #being #brings #broadened #consciousness

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. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#another #another way #bodies #heavenly #heavenly bodies

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#jealousy #reckoning #small-mindedness #tea #wine

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

— Max Frisch

#believe #fate #formulae #i #i am