Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

Walter Russell Mead

By the Hospital Lane goes the 'Faeries Path.' Every evening they travel from the hill to the sea, from the sea to the hill. At the sea end of their path stands a cottage. One night Mrs. Arbunathy, who lived there, left her door open, as she was expec...

The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

The Hill Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. You said, "Through glory and ecstasy we pass; Wind, sun, and earth remain, the birds sing still, When we are old, are old. . . ." "And when we die Al...

The Collected Poems

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

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

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

Why are you so angry?” His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry,” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.

A Different Blue

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

A Different Blue

None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.

A Different Blue

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

A Different Blue

I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

Dark of the Moon

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Everything You Know

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.

The Fifty-First Dragon

Knowing how to fall is much more valuable than knowing how to walk.

The Fall: A Father's Memoir in 424 Steps

Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria.

The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]

A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

How to Speak and Write Correctly

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says ' ' the translation of which is— the poet is born, not made.

How to Speak and Write Correctly

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

The Hollow Hills

Wolves mated for life. Where was he? Where was the echo to her howl, her mate? Was there no other lone wolf, searching the hills for her?

Always with You

If the regular pay was important to him, the opportunity to learn was of even greater long-range significance.

Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago