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Quotes About Reckon

Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.
~ Ian Fleming
The fears that technology makes us more uniform, more commoditized are incorrect. The more we are personalized, the easier it is for the filters because we become distinct, an actualized distinction they can reckon with.
~ Kevin Kelly
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
To have nothing the matter with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty colorless. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon; it is at least the way he looks. I never could stand a saint.
~ Mark Twain
I reckon, he said malevolently, you is just made up your mind to serve Satan all your days. I done made up my mind, she answered, to live all while I can. If that's a sin, well, I'll go on down to Hell and pay for it. But don't you fret, Reverend—it ain't your soul.
~ James Baldwin
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
She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And I reckon this is jut my lice, too, the other said. 'But I know now why it is,' Byron things. 'It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
~ William Faulkner
Latham was aware of this potential when he said: "Among the perils of disease we must not refuse to reckon the errors of physicians.
~ Herbert Benson
He smiled a little wearily. "Wal, old — trail driver, we pay," he whispered, feebly. "I reckon — I cain't — wait for — little gray-eyed — Ann!".
~ Zane Grey
Nor can I throw a book away. I have given many away and ripped a few in half, but as with warring nations, destruction shows regard: the enemy is a power to reckon with. Throwing a book out shows contempt for an effort of the spirit. Not that I haven't tried.
~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz
It is more difficult to reckon with race if we cannot
~ Michael Eric Dyson
Romans 6:2–11 is all about the death of the Messiah and about the fact that those who are baptized into him must "reckon" that they too have died. This death was like the passing of the Israelites through the Red Sea: those who pass through the waters of baptism are reminded that they have left behind the old world of slavery ("Egypt") and are on the way home to their inheritance
~ Unknown