Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

Karl Rove

Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros are also acceptable.

Luke Harding

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Martin Jacques

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

Neil Sheehan

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

Peter Arnett

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

Sebastian Junger

The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms. We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black wo...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: Classic Annotated and Illustrated 1818 'Uncensored' Edition: The Modern Prometheus

I said. “I’m fine. I have a little bit of a head ache, but I’m not dizzy or nauseous. I can walk and talk just fine, and I can remember everything.” “Everything, huh? Don’t self-diagnose, Doctor Fisher. Do you remember when the Battle of ...

Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning

Tommy DeVito: [Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging up Billy Batts' decomposed corpse. Henry is coughing from the stench, while the others don't appear to be bothered] Hey, Henry, Henry, hurry up, will ya? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and ...

Goodfellas

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy.

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

The Cry of the Icemark

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

Adevarul despre casatorie este acela ca te face sa nu mai fi egoist. Iar oamenii lipsiti de egoism sun incolori. Le lipseste individualitatea

Dorian Gray

Wer seinem Volk Angst macht, der braucht es [...] nicht zu fürchten.

Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht

This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.

Downtown Owl

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

England My England: Anglophilia Explained

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

Emily of New Moon

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader