Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date?

Pepe Eliaschev

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Stephen Bayley

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Sebastian Junger

... knowing what not to know was itself indispensable knowledge.

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

Morremos um pouco todos os dias, e todos os dias devemos procurar um final bonito antes de partir.

Doidas e Santas

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing.

The Grave On Peckerwood Hill

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

Go

To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise

The Good Soldiers

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

How We Decide

I've read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and , and the . First you have to have pleasure— pain.

How to Build a Girl

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills

Seorang komunis menginginkan dunia yang terdiri dari satu bangsa. Mereka menghapuskan nasionalisme untuk kepentingan internasionalisme.

Bung Karno: Penyambung Lidah Rakyat Indonesia

Yang lebih penting di dalam suatu peperangan dan revolusi adalah waktu yang tepat.

Bung Karno: Penyambung Lidah Rakyat Indonesia

Bagi kami kemiskinan bukanlah sesuatu yang perlu membuat malu. Kami semua orang yang berpikiran idealis.

Bung Karno: Penyambung Lidah Rakyat Indonesia

Ahli hukum tidak bisa menyimpang dari azas hukum. Mereka harus taat pada hukum yang berlaku.

Bung Karno: Penyambung Lidah Rakyat Indonesia

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.

The Boys of Summer

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.

Diana Nyad

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

Black Elk

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Bernard Levin