Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Natural selection has a new aspect, one that is psychological denial. Such denial where the βindividual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, which he is apart, suffersβ.
When reeling a fish in to not simply feel βthe power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continueβ.
You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.
When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
Sitting in a rocker never appealed to me. Golf or fishing isn't as much fun as working.
I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... In my family, that was just stuff we did. That's just the way it was.
Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a bowl of leftover lentils. The atonement for this sin was so extreme that I've never repeated it: After being chastised, I spent the next 20 minutes fishing out the minuscule pieces of garlic.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.
There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.
I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.
Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.