Top 100 Reckon Quotes
#1. I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!
Marc Warren
#2. Dad, I don't know women very well, but I reckon they live by their hearts. You
Zane Grey
#3. My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf
or Giant
in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
C.S. Lewis
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I don't reckon men are supposed to think," Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. "That's why God gave 'em big muscles.
Mary Connealy
#7. Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. 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
#9. As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value to reckon by.
Isabel Paterson
#10. 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
#11. Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#13. 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
#14. The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key
#15. Who can reckon up the loss of moral power that arises from the constant impression that nothing is worth doing in itself, but only as a preparation for something else, which in turn is only a getting ready for some genuinely serious end beyond?
John Dewey
#16. Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'
Charles Spurgeon
#18. Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
Marcus Aurelius
#19. I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.
John Gimlette
#20. I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
Ben Whishaw
#21. I reckon it is up to us to treat each other better than the Lord do, and teach Him a lesson.
G.B. Edwards
#22. 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
#23. Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion of this or that neurotransmitter? And who will ever find a morality, an ethics down among the enzymes and amino acids when the general taste is for looking in the other direction?
Ian McEwan
#24. Despite the company of friendship we still have ourselves to reckon with at the end of the day.
Darien Gee
#25. I remember more and see more than you, she said. And will for a considerable time. We do not speak to many, and the spirit of horses does not reveal himself to anyone. There is magic in your bones. You must reckon with it.
Katherine Arden
#26. ain't a-going to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for
Mark Twain
#27. 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
#28. All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon
#29. Get off me," Harry spat, throwing Pettigrew's hands off him in disgust. "I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it because - I don't reckon my dad would've wanted them to become killers - just for you.
J.K. Rowling
#30. I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
Nigel Kneale
#31. I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Hermann Hesse
#32. The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
Bruce Springsteen
#33. 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
#34. I reckon he's jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he's got in his little finger.
Cathy Hopkins
#35. To measure you by your smallest deed
is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures
is to cast blame upon the seasons
for their inconsistencies.
Kahlil Gibran
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Dill?"
Mm?"
Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?"
Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me.
Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to
Harper Lee
#41. 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
#42. You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.
Chris Howard
#43. I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.
Mark Twain
#44. Almighty God, if it aint too far out of the way of things in your eternal plan do you reckon we could have a little rain down here.
Cormac McCarthy
#45. It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
Mark E. Smith
#46. I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.
Bruce Machart
#47. 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
#49. 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
#50. Obviously, my name is known now, but I don't think people generally tend to recognize authors very much. People like J. K. Rowling maybe, Gillian Flynn might be recognized, but I reckon she could walk by me on the street, and I wouldn't know who she was.
Paula Hawkins
#51. How do you know he's dead? I realize that I may regret asking that question." "He's got a broken neck from falling off a roof and I reckon he fell off because he got a steel crossbow dart in his brain." "Ah. That sounds like dead, if you want my medical opinion.
Terry Pratchett
#52. In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.
Kiese Laymon
#53. What's that, forgone conclusion then you reckon, sir?' said the barman. 'Arsenal without a chance?'
'No, no,' said Ford, 'it's just that the world's about to end.
Douglas Adams
#54. So how do you make your exit?" she asked. "In a puff of smoke? Or do you just vaporize?"
He grinned at her. "Much as I hate to be a crushing disappointment to you, I reckon I'll just take the door.
Justin Somper
#55. I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood. Do not you think we have? '
'Not half a mile,' was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness.
Jane Austen
#56. We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
Sigmund Freud
#57. I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.
Robert E. Howard
#58. I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
Dashiell Hammett
#59. dance show. What'ya reckon, Dad?' The dance show that she may not have
Amanda Egan
#60. I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
Terry Pratchett
#61. I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from it since she was nine.
Tana French
#62. I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
Gareth Gates
#63. I ain't looking to comply," John said, "I violate people's rights every day, reckon I'm an expert what mine are. I'll be around."
--John Bassler on being asked to leave town in the upcoming book Chokoloskee.
Charles Sams
#64. Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers.
Jacqueline Carey
#65. No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses, reckon up their own;
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.
Sonnet 121
William Shakespeare
#66. Stained raincoats, I reckon." "And shitpaper stuck to their shoes.
Daniel Woodrell
#67. All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.
Trevor Baylis
#68. The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,
Eddie McGuire
#69. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.
G.K. Chesterton
#70. He smiled. "Yeah. Reckon you could read the phone book and make it dirty.
Alexis Hall
#71. Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.
Emilia Clarke
#72. She remember her granny telling her, 'Men are like coal boilers, Ellie. If you find a man you reckon to keep, you got to feed his belly every day, make him burn for you, then release some steam purty regular, or you ain't ever gonna get him to work.
Kresley Cole
#73. Who can undo
What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
#74. The miracles of our dreams lie beneath our foot soles
in each and every tiny step we take as we journey to the stars ... I reckon the destination isn't the only miracle.
Besa Kosova
#75. I reckon Southern writers are a lot like biscuit makers...more than one can give ya a good feed.
Lola Faye Arnold
#76. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Thomas Hobbes
#77. Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
Milan Kundera
#78. They say 'Chaos is the ally of the desperate man,' and I reckon it applies to dwarves and snot-nosed boys too. Let's test is at the front gate, shall we?
Gillian Bronte Adams
#79. I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.
Pete McCarthy
#80. I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#81. If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
Alison Bechdel
#82. No. Some you put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Reckon we'll have to see, yet, which way this is going to turn.
J.D. Jordan
#83. I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.
George Meredith
#84. My heart do be so big," she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it.
Torey L. Hayden
#85. I reckon that being good is about the easiest thing in the world for a lazy man.
William Faulkner
#86. I can't do nothing. Just put it off. And that don't do no good. I reckon it belong to me. I reckon what I going to get ain't no more than mine.
William Faulkner
#87. I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
Patti Smith
#88. I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
Saint Basil
#89. I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.
Robert Penn Warren
#90. To be a power to reckon with you need to believe in yourself and your dreams.
Stephen Richards
#91. Maybe it don't seem to make sense for a fella to be doing things for a reason that he don't know about. But I reckon I've been doing it most of my life.
Jim Thompson
#92. The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is.
Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271
Sharyn McCrumb
#93. ...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.'
'What is that?'
' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
Agatha Christie
#94. Even though Jack wasn't a romantic man in big showy ways, those little things let me know his feelings more than any high-dollar roses on Valentine's Day ever could have. In Corinthians, Paul says love's not boastful, so I reckon Jack got it right. His love was patient and quiet, and it endured.
Lisa Wingate
#95. It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.
Alice Hegan Rice
#96. The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
Eric Maisel
#97. he did not reckon with the power that gold has upon which a dragon has long brooded, nor with dwarvish hearts.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. I reckon you've called the turn, Bill. That wolf's a dog, an' it's eaten fish many's the time from the hand of man. (ch. 2.)
Jack London
#99. I reckon that for all the use it has been to science about four-fifths of my time has been wasted, and I believe this to be the common lot of people who are not merely playing follow-my-leader in research.
Peter Medawar
#100. As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't stand the littlest, teeniest, no-account sort of thing that she ain't sure of. Answers may kill 'em dead enough, but it's questions that eats 'em alive.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
