Quotes about Reckoning

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We reckon that in about 20 years there'll be none left.

Jane Goodall

[No trial, no judge, no defense. Iraqis would remember it as] the night of the long knives, ... The Reckoning.

Sandra Mackey

Frankly I don't follow Indian athletics to a great extent but I do know that it has started to pick up a bit of late. Five years hence, I expect Indian athletes to be a force to reckon with.

Daley Thompson

What's more, he's had to reckon with some ultimate questions, which he's done with courage and wit and irony.

Walter Parkes

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Bernard Mandeville

The record is on definitely. It will go with this forecast. I reckon we will be about four hours behind the first two. They are a generation in front and if we sail the race of our life we will be behind them.

Sean Langman

This was a devious and calculated act. It had a catastrophic effect on the company. The government must send a message to systems managers and people in trust that there will be a day of reckoning.

V. Grady O'malley

Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.

Curly Howard

People always say that when something like this happens, you either get better or you get worse. I reckon I'm going to get worse.

John Porter

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

Be in the world like a traveler, or like a passer on, and reckon yourself as of the dead.

Abu Muhammad

I reckon it would take you 40 hours to read the first book out loud. Cutting that to three hours -- well, what can you do? The answer is, abridge, ... If you know the story, you can see them skipping.

Tom Shippey

It would do very well in a tax-deferred account because you would avoid final reckoning until you cash out the tax-deferred account.

Casey Colton

Why not? I reckon we will have earned a nice long holiday by then.

Dave Hands

We reckon that about 50,000 infected people are now receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment nationwide.

Babatunde Osotimehin

Depending on what we learn in the next few days this may be the biggest oil-supply shock since the 1970s. We are now in the days of reckoning.

Daniel Yergin

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

Blake Edwards

I reckon he's fantastic. The only thing he needs to do is learn to bowl good length. He's not bowling his yorker enough. The way I understand is that they're being coached to concentrate on the top of the off stump.

Brett Lee

It's a day of reckoning. Yesterday we saw huge amounts of aircraft coming in, so on this first day of the new phase of the emergency we have to make sure that everything is coordinated.

Lindsey Davies

A compass in the north is worthless. You got true north and magnetic north and the needle just goes round in circles. It's all dead reckoning, and he knew every point of land - he'd been there so many times.

Paul Eitel

[Holley] taught us a lot about not only football, but life, ... He is the kind of person I reckon you could say would get the best out of you.

Paul Rogers

Now comes the day of reckoning. Brown will push as hard as possible but at this stage there's not a lot he can do.

Daniel Gros

Reckoning with Roosevelt, 1944-55.

David Woolner

The tallest player on our team is about 5-foot-8. And Connie is a lot taller. She is a force to reckon with. We had a hard time dealing with her all night.

Scott Ashley

A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want.

Paul Taylor

I said to the wife, "Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one." And she said, "I'll bet it's that stuck-up Phyllis at number 23."

Max Kauffmann

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

Neville Cardus

I certainly wasn't interested in inserting my own point of view. The questions themselves are interesting. There are very intelligent people who come down on both sides of the argument about the existence of angels and demons. For me, it's impossible to live without reckoning -- honestly and deeply -- with those questions, because how you answer them is going to affect how you live, how you think.

Scott Derrickson

Their plan is to strike on or before February 14 to show they are still a force to reckon with, to say that even if our people are in jail, we can strike.

Emmanuel Velasco

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

Edward Noyes Westcott