George Steiner Famous Quotes
"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform."
"Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past."
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past."
"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
George Steiner Quotations
Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
"Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway."
Roger John
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you get all wet.
Unknown
"When I think back on all the blessings I have been given in my life, I can't think of a single one, unless you count that rattlesnake that granted me all those wishes."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer
"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."
Stephen Jay Gould
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Ruskin