Howell Raines Quotes

#1. The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.

Chip Ingram

#2. I can accomplish more before breakfast than I used to do in a day.

Laura Vanderkam

#3. One day that ego of yours'll kill you. That's all it is, you know. You pretend it's selfless, you pretend to be the great teacher, the wise and patient Armand Gamache, but you and I both know it's ego. Pride. Be careful, my friend. She's dangerous. You've said so yourself.

Louise Penny

#4. Why not have it.

Howell Raines

#5. I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

Howell Raines

#6. But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Tony Curtis

#7. For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.

Howell Raines

#8. Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.

Howell Raines

#9. Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.

Yellow Tanabe

#10. The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.

G. Campbell Morgan

#11. My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

Alex Karras

#12. Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Howell Raines

#14. Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

Howell Raines

#15. In some respects supermarket apples represent a kind of collective forgetting - of flavors, textures, and aromas, of landscapes and foliage. Forgetting can be far more difficult to study than remembering, because its traces are much harder to discern.

Jennifer A. Jordan

#16. I have a fascination for extra-judicial societies and underground cultures, and in situations where justice can only be found outside the law, and how these societies have evolved over the centuries.

Ann Nocenti

#17. It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.

Howell Raines

#18. All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

Howell Raines

#19. Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

Howell Raines

#20. If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

Colette

#21. My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

Arabella Weir

#22. All humans are the same sex, except albinos.

Lester Bangs

#23. Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

John Barth

#24. When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.

Howell Raines

#25. I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember ... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

Randy Pausch