Steines Mark Quotes & Sayings

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future ... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.' — Albert Camus

It is impossible to stand still in Christian life and service, for when you stand still, you immediately start going backward. "Let us go on!" is God's challenge to His church (Heb. 6:1), and that means moving ahead into new territory. — Warren W. Wiersbe

The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate. — Timothy Snyder

The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities. — Gertrude Atherton

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte

I think there is some methodology in my travels. — George W. Bush

If we believe that we are just animals, without immortal souls, we are already but one step removed from pod people. — Jack Finney

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

This world will try to beat you down. Only laughter can counteract that. Laughter is ammunition. Resupply often. — Richard Phillips

You have to grow all the time," I said. "Not necessarily get bigger. But inside your head you have to grow, kid-boy. For us human-type people that's what's important. And that kind of growing never stops. At least it shouldn't. You can grow, kid-boy; or you can die. That's the choice you've got, and it goes on all of your life. — Samuel R. Delany

You growing up to be who you are is like a flower growing through a crack in the sidewalk. — Anne Malcom

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. — Charles Dickens