Reck'ning Quotes

#1. To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes, the higher realities, the infinite cosmos itself is beyond thought.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#3. I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.

Mark Twain

#4. When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

Catherine Ponder

#5. I reck'n I knows what I knows.

Mark Twain

#6. Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#7. Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Stephen Jay Gould

#8. What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. "Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

David Mamet

#10. So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

John Gay

#11. And in the summer the river didn't run at all above ground.

John Steinbeck

#12. He gave me exactly what I wanted, and it made me blind

Victoria Aveyard

#13. There was nothing glamorous about the kiss. It was breathy and sloppy and noisy, more passion than finesse, but it was like a hit of speed tripping
through his blood, rippling pleasure through his thighs and buttocks and belly, their heads twisting greedily in time to the wild buck of his hips.

Amy Andrews

#14. I would like to be with you, but I do love my loneliness too.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. the cat unsheathes its claws
the world turns

Sylvia Plath

#16. My dear countrymen, I hope that you will live to see the day when you learn to believe in other gods than a few movie whores and a couple of prize-fighters.

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

#17. Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

#18. It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

John Prescott

#19. The purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise.

Atul Gawande

#20. There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Felicia Hemans

#21. Consciousness determines existence.

Michio Kaku