Mark Steiner Quotes & Sayings

All of Dostoevsky's heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule. What distinguishes modern sensibility from classical sensibility is that the latter thrives on moral programs and the former on metaphysical programs. In Dostoevsky's novels the question is propounded with such intensity that it can only invite extreme solutions. Existence is illusory or it is eternal. If Dostoevsky were satisfied with this inquiry, he would be a philosopher. But he illustrates the consequences that such intellectual pastimes may have in a man's life, and in this regard he is an artist. — Albert Camus

...therefore all childish fear must be put away. — John Muir

Despite the universality of this change, which we're all buffeted by, there is a single, seemingly small change that I'll be most sorry about. It will sound meaningless, but: One doesn't see teenagers staring into space anymore. Gone is the idle mind of the adolescent. — Michael Harris

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?"
"Everything. — Holly Black

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must. — Katherine Mansfield

History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers. — George Otis

I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face. — Amy Sedaris

Read the sticky note on this personal cup: personal grande sugar-free caramel, caramel affogato caramel blended coffee light. Really? This isn't a hard beverage to make, but who in their right mind orders a beverage that lists caramel three times? I'm willing to bet this drink was suggested by someone who works here. Bet it was Julie. — J. Lorraine

Ebola has killed almost 12,000 people and at least 500 health workers. So it affected the entire population. And as you know, the World Health Organization was accused of not having declared an epidemic soon enough. And that's when we saw Ebola rampaging through Sierra Leone, Liberia and, to a lesser extent, Guinea. — Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. — Theresa May

How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like. — Sacha Baron Cohen

A network marketing business is based upon the leaders pulling people up, while a traditional corporate or government business is based upon only promoting a few and keeping the masses of employees content with a steady paycheck. — Robert Kiyosaki

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it. — Lily Rabe