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My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with. -- Judy Gold
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want people to know that I'm a force to be reckoned with. -- Tinashe
The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical. -- Henry Taube
MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with. -- Nick Rhodes
Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy. -- Amy Winehouse
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty. -- Maggie Smith
I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped. -- Wentworth Miller
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. -- Alfred Marshall
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. -- Smedley Butler
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. -- Howard Staunton
The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it. -- Michael E. Mann
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. -- Rebecca West
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. -- Roseanne Barr
If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days. -- John Aubrey
Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political. -- Junior Seau
I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing. -- Taylor Hanson
During my childhood, I played just about every sport imaginable, which became less feasible at Juilliard... Although I remember our annual dodge-ball game as a highlight. The Juilliard 'Fighting Penguins' are a force to be reckoned with. -- Seth Numrich
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with. -- Douglas Adams
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. -- Leopold Von Ranke
Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television. -- Angela Cartwright
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. -- John Buchanan Robinson
They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with. -- Nicole Kidman
We film 'Resurrection' in Atlanta, where humidity is a force to be reckoned with, especially for those of us who have naturally curly hair. I would love for the au naturel look of the '60s to come back. No make up, no hair products - just sun-kissed skin, freckles, and crazy curls. -- Devin Kelley
Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. -- Michael E. Mann
When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. -- Tom Petty
We need help, the poet reckoned. -- Edward Dorn
There's beggary in love that can be reckoned -- William Shakespeare
Jonas Brothers fans are a force to be reckoned with -- Nick Jonas
As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see. -- N. Scott Momaday
Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy. -- Alexander Hamilton
How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers? -- Andrew Marvell
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. -- Edward Dahlberg
You'll find my power comes from within.... and is a force to be reckoned with. -- Jim Starlin
If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with. -- Maria V. Snyder
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. -- Epictetus
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. -- Winston Churchill
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive. -- Rudolf Virchow
Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy. -- Theodor Mommsen
[Amy Sedaris] probably can't sit still, that type of thing. She's a force to be reckoned with. -- David Krumholtz
The Rays are a team to be reckoned with. These guys are getting better and better each year. -- Cliff Floyd
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive. -- Criss Jami
I will never be scared to love me.I am a force to be reckoned with.I am beautiful. -- Alexandra Elle
Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with. -- Jon Pareles
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods. -- William Shakespeare
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event. -- Euripides
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned. -- Voltaire
Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another. -- Francis Atterbury
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. -- Samuel Johnson
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live. -- John Eldredge
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. . -- Aristotle
I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government. -- Edmund Burke
In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven. -- Samuel Rutherford
What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. -- Hippocrates
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight. -- John Calvin
Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh fer Christ's bloody sake Martha I didna' raise ye to be well regarded. To be liked. Any puny weak-waisted slut can be liked. I raised ye to be reckoned with. -- Kathleen Kent
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord. -- Irenaeus of Lyons
The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second. -- Gary Neville
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them. -- John Calvin
Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today. -- Norman Finkelstein
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed. -- Samuel Johnson
Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart. -- Bon Scott
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with. -- Vivienne Westwood
It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief. -- Jacqueline Carey
He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing. -- Michael Morpurgo
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment. -- Sigmund Freud

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