Howell Raines Quotes

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

The thing that transforms something from being an idea to being a physical reality is work.

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Every age is an unknown country.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the Isle of Avalon," he said. "Yep. Good for one hour of great talent," said Annie. Jack smiled, remembering their hour as horse trainers and their hour as stage magicians. "I wonder what we'll be great at this time," he said. "Maybe great nurses?" said Annie. "We'll see," said Jack. He put the tiny bottle in his backpack; then he picked up the piece of paper from the floor. On the paper he had written the two secrets of greatness they'd

It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.