Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

Alan Huffman

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

Dan Savage

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

Ernie Pyle

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

Elizabeth Vargas

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

James Fallows

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

Kate Adie

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

Molly Ivins

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

Philip Gibbs

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

P. J. O'Rourke

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Ted Koppel

As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practically everybody by the 'greed', that, they are 'alive', therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are 'conditions'. Gravelly Hill or any sort of situation fo...

The Maximus Poems

Just before we left, Jean said, 'You know what else? Falintil is here. They're not armed, but they're keeping an eye on things. Can you spot them?' I peered among the hill people, and thought that perhaps I could: an older man with an air of authorit...

In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

There was a time we laughed at the old guys up on the hill. The ones who graduated a couple of years before us, and who would hang around the school and the ballpark still, and would sit on the hoods of their cars and tell us how when they were senio...

Tucker Elliot

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely...

Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats

The trees were tinted exquisitely to an uncertain glory as the great red sinking sun flashed its rays on their crystal mantle. The vale of Aylesbury was drowsing beneath a slowly deepening shroud of mist. Above it the hills, their crests rounded and ...

H.R. Wakefield

[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

Calcutta: Two Years in the City

History never repeats itself, historians do.

The Concept Of Jacksonian Democracy: New York As A Test Case

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

A Different Blue

...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.

Downtown Owl

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader