#reckon

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

#bring #cancer #cause #classic #discovered

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. ↗

— Gaylord Perry

#chocolate #everything #i #i tried #old

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

#attributed #because #bed #eye #his

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

#educator #effects #future #how #light

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

#always #country #exactly #feel #fit

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#jealousy #reckoning #small-mindedness #tea #wine

Screw caution," Tori said. "I'm outta here." We looked at her. "Well, I am. As long as someone comes with me." We kept looking at her. She sighed. "Fine, but when everything goes to hell, just remember, I get to blame you guys, because I wanted to leave right away. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#chloe #derek #kelley #reckoning #tori

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#good #man #much #never #not good enough

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

#affairs #anybody #biography #considers #difficult