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Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies. -- George Herbert
I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week. -- Niall Horan
Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose. -- Karen Maitland
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
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life. -- Ben Whishaw
I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office. -- Blake Edwards
Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. -- Emilia Clarke
I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. -- Gaylord Perry
Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon. -- Curly Howard
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. -- Bernard de Mandeville
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
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous. -- Bruce Springsteen
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight. -- Donald G. Mitchell
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
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays. -- Jacques Derrida
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
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
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. -- Alfred Adler
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
As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear. -- Jeffrey Kluger
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
The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a either black gay or a lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works. -- Jeremy Clarkson
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
I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. -- Sam Shepard
If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation. -- Marcus Garvey
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
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
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
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death. -- Milan Kundera
I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all. -- Bruce Machart
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. -- Publilius Syrus
At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate. -- Peter Garrett
Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? -- Mark Twain
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon. -- Aesop
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. -- Robin G. Collingwood
If I wasn't in the band I reckon I'd be a virgin. -- Harry Styles
I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century. -- Laura Ashley
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself. -- Thomas a Kempis
You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get. -- Chris Howard
It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon. -- Courtney Barnett
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Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism. -- Geoff Hamilton
marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe. -- Ellen Glasgow
I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins. -- Terry Pratchett
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. -- Aeschylus
I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time. -- Robert Penn Warren
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more. -- Edward Noyes Westcott
I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore. -- Sophie Kinsella
I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle. -- Terry Pratchett
I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner. -- Dashiell Hammett
I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something. -- Robert E. Howard
The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other. -- Horace Walpole
I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking. -- Pete McCarthy
I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. -- Nigel Kneale
I am somewhere in the middle of a village with all the modern amenities. There's something missing. Life? I reckon.... -- Manasa Rao Saarloos
Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. -- George Eliot
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. -- Alison Bechdel
I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far. -- Jamie Redknapp
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
I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army. -- Garry Kasparov
Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish. -- Bernard Cornwell
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
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
Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon. -- Bob Hawke
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
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
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
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it. -- John Ortberg
Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff." ... Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments. "Old-fashioned standoffs are mighty borin -- Derek Landy
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
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
Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life. -- John Calvin
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic. -- Gary Chapman
I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream. -- Sarah Hall
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
Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!' -- Russell Howard
I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II. -- Christopher Vokes
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
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
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous! -- Jim Elliot
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
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
In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
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
We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it. -- Imelda Staunton
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
Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts. -- Abram Joseph Ryan
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
There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind. -- Mark Twain
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
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
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
The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me? -- Plutarch
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
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
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? -- Walt Whitman
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

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