George Steiner Quotes
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Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.
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I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.
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Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.
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I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.
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Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
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So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.
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In that accident, we not only lost seven colleagues, we lost seven friends, ... They believed in space exploration. They knew the risks, but they believed in what they were doing. They showed us that the fire of the human spirit is insatiable.
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I want the look of a movie to be secondary. I really want people to be engaged in the story and the characters and not think about a style or think about me or think about the director of photography and what a great job he's doing. I never feel like that should be there.
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Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.
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O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.
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I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?
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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
