George Steiner Quotes

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

George Steiner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1929

Topics

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I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.

Jimmy Carr

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I see a lot of parallels between my father and Donald Trump.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

John Abizaid

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Energy is called 'the master resource' for a reason.

John Barrasso

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It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

John Templeton

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Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

Steve Carlton

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Realizing the responsibility I've been entrusted with... it's humbling. Very humbling.

Tom Graves

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We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we're still talking about 25 years later.

Rob Lowe

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I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.

Mona Eltahawy

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Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

Luka Sulic

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Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

Lois Capps

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The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

Arthur Middleton

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