#reckon

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#another #another way #bodies #heavenly #heavenly bodies

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

#always #come #course #deep #deep down

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#bodies #cloudy #dead #distance #endeavor

I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consider #quotes #reckoning #tolerate #voice

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#blood #demand #gaza #his #let us

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

#great number #implicit #level #number #philosophy

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

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#energy #had #healthier #i #looked

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#civil #civil rights #had #king #leader