Famous quotes containing the words steiner, chain and/or circles:
“Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)