Harry Reasoner Quotes

#1. The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom.

Maximilian Kolbe

#2. We're all controlled neurotics.

Harry Reasoner

#3. This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

Harry Reasoner

#4. I was putting my foot down with my new neighbor.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#5. The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.

Harry Reasoner

#6. If you're feeling bad for any reason, going to the mall always makes you feel worse. It's so glarey and noisy. The stores are full of things you think you might like until you get close and see how stupid they are.

Betty Miles

#7. If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

Harry Reasoner

#8. I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it's an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

Andrew Weil

#9. Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Harry Reasoner

#10. Love one another and you will be happy, it is as simple and as difficult as that

Michael Leunig

#11. The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

Ludwig Buchner

#12. Work hard and follow your dreams, but never forget where you came from.

Vanessa Hudgens

#13. Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

Karl Popper

#14. What you own or how you look doesn't make you a good person. Treating people right makes you a good person.

Terraine Francois

#15. Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Harry Reasoner

#16. So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.

Harry Reasoner

#17. When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.

Harry Reasoner

#18. Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

Ellen Terry