Top 100 I Reckon Sayings
#1. Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.
Evander Holyfield
#2. I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.
William Faulkner
#3. You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.
Jackie French
#4. I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.
Ellen Glasgow
#5. We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.
Eddie Montgomery
#6. It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.
Courtney Barnett
#7. I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore.
Sophie Kinsella
#8. If God was small enough to understand, I reckon He wouldn't be big enough to worship.
Margaret Brownley
#9. Seems to me there's not much time to read about other people's lives and live your own while you're at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I'll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else's.
Sophie Hannah
#10. Where's your warrant?" asked McGinty. "By Gar! a man might as well live in Russia as in Vermissa while folk like you are running the police. It's a capitalist outrage, and you'll hear more of it, I reckon.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#11. Afraid so. But you can't go someplace a second time until you been there a first time, I reckon. Everyone has to stand out sometime,
Brandon Sanderson
#13. I reckon I'll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life, but thank God I won't ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son of a bitch who's got two cents to buy a stamp.
William Faulkner
#14. There was a place where all light tends to go, and I reckon that was heaven.
David Joy
#15. My children ain't the only thing I love. If I was allowed, I reckon I'd love myself, too.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
#16. If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.
Jakob Dylan
#17. A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.
Joe Abercrombie
#18. Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon.
Liane Moriarty
#19. I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese ... they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy.
Ian Graham
#20. I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' - so when they've been to those, they've been incredibly embarrassed. They won't be embarrassed going to see 'Black Death' - I reckon they're going to love it.
Kimberley Nixon
#21. The king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him the profitable way - meaning the devil, I reckon.
Mark Twain
#22. Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.
George Eliot
#23. Ya game is fine, but ya booze-eyes are a problem. Not like ya ta drink this much. I reckon ya banjo'd, so ya are.
JoAnne Kenrick
#24. I reckon if you care for someone and you can't have their love, you can either be a spiteful bastard about it or you can try your damnedest to make sure they're going to find some happiness in the world.
Lindsay Buroker
#25. My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.
Robert Southwell
#26. If I wasn't in the band I reckon I'd be a virgin.
Harry Styles
#27. I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.
Laura Ashley
#28. Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff."
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Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments.
"Old-fashioned standoffs are mighty borin
Derek Landy
#29. You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it. It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon. Leslie's soul must be near raw - it's no wonder she hides it away.
L.M. Montgomery
#30. I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
Joel Edgerton
#31. You know what I really love the most in life? Food. Yep, just food. I love the cooking of food, the eating of food, the talking about food, the thinking about food, and the dreaming about food. Food, food, food. That's what I love. Can there be anything more Hobbity than that? I reckon not.
Steve Bivans
#32. It's the last residue of our closeness with God, I reckon, the ability to see the wonder of things.
Celine Kiernan
#33. I reckon he only ever wanted you to be happy. That's why he was the man for you.
Hugh Howey
#34. Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.
Keisha Castle-Hughes
#35. I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, "do I want to be remembered for this?" before I get to the point of spending a year on it.
Charles Stross
#36. Hard work makes for what I reckon you like in a man, but don't understand. As I look back over my life--an' let me say, young fellar, it's been a tough one--what I remember most an' feel best over are the hardest jobs I ever did, an' those that cost the most sweat an' blood." As
Zane Grey
#37. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
Walt Whitman
#39. And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.
William Faulkner
#40. As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.
Henry Rollins
#41. Huntin too hard for the truth ain't a good idea, y'know," he added. "By the time you stumble over it, it ain't the truth no more. Unless there's death in it. I reckon death is about as close to truth as a man can come.
Peter Matthiessen
#42. I reckon you could go ahead and shoot that dog and git you another one with regular anal sacs and wouldn't nobody be the wiser.' And I tell him, 'Starnes, this town ain't got any men worth loving, so I might as well love my dog."' The
John Green
#43. I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.
William Faulkner
#44. Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner.
Francine Rivers
#45. Sanguine: Shackles can't hold me, pretty lady. I'm immune to just about every binding spell I reckon you ever heard of, and a few more you haven't. That's what makes me special
Tanith: That and your psychopathic tendencies
Sanguine: Oh, they don't make me special. They just make me fun.
Derek Landy
#46. I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.
Joyce DeWitt
#47. God Almighty made us all, and some He gives eyes that's blind, and some He gives eyes that can see, and I reckon it ain't none of our lookout what He done it for; it's all right, or He'd 'a' fixed it some other way.
Mark Twain
#48. There isn't any devil in a good dog. That's why they're more lovable than cats, I reckon. But I'm darned if they're as interesting.
L.M. Montgomery
#49. I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
Edward Noyes Westcott
#50. Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.
L.M. Montgomery
#51. Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.
Nathan Filer
#52. Well, I've learnt this much: it doesn't matter
what it costs, it's worth paying the price. You can't live cheap
and you can't live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you've
paid it, that's what I reckon.
John Marsden
#53. I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
Ken Livingstone
#54. He was still a boy, but there was steel in him. The eyes into which she looked now were cool, but they were eyes strangely mature. I reckon I'll stay, ma'am. Down where I come from, we don't back water for no man.
Louis L'Amour
#55. I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.
Terry Pratchett
#56. My stomach squirms like worms (in a good way) just thinking about him. And I reckon when love's in short supply, you know it all the more when it finds you.
Emily Murdoch
#57. I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon
L.M. Montgomery
#58. Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.
Curly Howard
#59. But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#60. A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un, I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be? An' I reckon it's abou' time yeh read yer letter.
J.K. Rowling
#61. I am somewhere in the middle of a village with all the modern amenities. There's something missing. Life? I reckon....
Manasa Rao
#62. I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go.
Guy Pearce
#63. Are you a religious man, Mr. Williams?" "No, ma'am. I reckon I'm not. But I do enjoy a relationship with my Savior. Will that do?
Cynthia Hickey
#64. Well, that's the end of that, I reckon. You know what, Furious?" And he grinned sideways at West. "I'm getting to like you, boy.
Joe Abercrombie
#65. I reckon that's the one thing you and I have in common - we both care about Em."
She gave him a small smile. "And we both have naturally charming dispositions."
His lips curved a little at her sarcasm. "That, too.
Kady Cross
#66. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.
Sylvia Plath
#67. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.
Mark Twain
#68. When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.
William Faulkner
#69. I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.
Gaylord Perry
#71. If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books.
Adrian McKinty
#72. I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.
Courtney Barnett
#73. I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me
I actually took my teachers seriously!
Sinclair Lewis
#74. By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go ... .Miss Leefolt, she'd narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong, unhitch that crying baby off my foot. I reckon that's the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns
Kathryn Stockett
#75. I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.
Anna Wintour
#76. Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.
Joe Abercrombie
#77. I reckon it's true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones.
Lisa Kaye Presley
#78. Dad, I don't know women very well, but I reckon they live by their hearts. You
Zane Grey
#79. I've got a chainsaw with my name on it in my workshop," Milo told us happily. "If I'm ever killed by undead, I want you guys to chop me up with it. It's a good chainsaw."
"I reckon it is, Milo. I would be honored to chop your head off," Sam said.
Larry Correia
#80. A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
Garson Kanin
#81. If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
David Mitchell
#82. Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in the head. But I reckon it's all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don't understand and cain't answer if he did.
Cormac McCarthy
#84. I reckon there's always a bit of pressure. We put it on ourselves, I think we always feel a bit of pressure because people around us and our manager and stuff call us perfectionists, which I find very hard to take because nothing that we do is perfect.
Chris Cheney
#85. I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
Ben Whishaw
#86. I reckon it is up to us to treat each other better than the Lord do, and teach Him a lesson.
G.B. Edwards
#87. I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
Ken Livingstone
#88. ain't a-going to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for
Mark Twain
#89. Yessuh, you done had your share of rough seas. I reckon you don't need to have been on a big ship like my papa was to know what a hard journey feels like.
La'Chris Jordan
#90. I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
Nigel Kneale
#91. Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.
Loretta Chase
#92. I reckon he's jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he's got in his little finger.
Cathy Hopkins
#93. You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it's still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could be wrong, but I reckon Michelangelo didn't wake up and think, 'Fuck , I gotta drag my ass outta bed. More painting at the Sistine Chapel. Wish that shit was done so I could get to a fuckin' beach.
Kristen Ashley
#94. Sheriff Root: "Ask Me, I reckon it was niggers"
Deputy: "How you reckon that, Sheriff Root?"
Sheriff Root: "Kinda thing they do"
Deputy: "What, burn two hundred people to death, right down to the bone? They do that?"
Sheriff Root: "MARTIAN niggers
Garth Ennis
#95. Audrey used to pass her some of her story books, but Gayle was no reader, not much or a homemaker neither, though Betty did try giving her a few lessons. I reckon Gayle lived on potato chips and Dr Pepper, and when Okey was home, they just lived on love.
Laurie Graham
#96. You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.
Noel Gallagher
#97. Giselle Speakmon's parents are totally devout. When I get in there and we hook up, there won't be any cribs for me either, Dad, because I reckon they'll make me wear one of those chastity belts, knowin' Jas is my brother and all.
Kristen Ashley
#98. You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.
Chris Howard
#99. Do you want a drink?" "You mean synthetic blood," she said after a slight hesitation. "Yes, that would be nice. A sociable gesture." "I'm all about the gestures. Bubba, you, too?" "Yes, ma'am, I reckon so," he said.
Charlaine Harris
#100. Well, I reckon you should
" Ron began, but he was interrupted by the Fat Lady, who had been watching them sleepily and now burst out, "Are you going to give me the password or will I have to say awake all night waiting for you to finish your conversation?
J.K. Rowling
