Top 31 Reckons Quotes
#1. What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?
Seneca.
#2. It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#3. The audacity of youth reckons upon what it fancies an unlimited time at its disposal; but a millionaire has unlimited means in his hand - which is better. One's time on earth is an uncertain quantity, but about the long reach of millions there is no doubt.
Joseph Conrad
#4. Dad reckons if you have a great time in one place, then that's a good reason for never going back. Nothing will ever measure up to the first time. He laughs at people who go to the same place every year, same beach, same house, same things to do.
James Moloney
#5. Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.
A.W. Tozer
#7. On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.
Barton Gellman
#8. A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree.
Arthur Smith
#9. The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
Pierre De Coubertin
#10. She reckons most of those models eat about one carrot a week, chew cotton wool like race horse jockeys to keep thin, and smoke cigarettes.
Apparently, they all look like crap by the time they are 30, and go out with the 'wrong' sort of men..
Rae Earl
#11. That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.
John Calvin
#12. Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
Thomas Huxley
#13. Thus one finds much more happiness in the world than sad eyes see, if one only reckons rightly, and does not forget all those moments of comfort in which every day is rich, even in the most harried of human lives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing.
John Berryman
#15. Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
Jacki Weaver
#16. Bridget reckons John Lennon wrote a song about her. I'm guessing it was 'Give Peace a Chance'.
Bridget Golightly
#17. Being positive reckons the unexpected.
Toba Beta
#18. What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?
Blaise Pascal
#19. A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?
Talbot Mundy
#20. Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
John Stott
#21. Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God.
Victor Hugo
#23. Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles
#24. Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts.
Edna O'Brien
#25. Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
Milan Kundera
#26. Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.
Leonard Ravenhill
#27. Oh, young Stibbons reckons he's caught Uncertainty,' said the Senior Wrangler, licking the paper. 'As soon as his body remembers what it's called it forgets where it's supposed to be.
Terry Pratchett
#28. The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
Plautus
#29. Dumbledore reckons You-Know-Who's getting stronger again as well? Ron whispered.
J.K. Rowling
#30. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.
H.G.Wells
#31. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
John Dryden
