Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

Carine Roitfeld

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Leland Ryken

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

[...] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

On Agate Hill

But you know I am not of the "afraid" kind. I am not boasting. That is a characteristic, not a quality. One is afraid or one is not. It happens that I am not.

A Hilltop on the Marne

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [...].

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The sky was as blue and delicate as a porcelain teacup, and the hills rolled gently in all directions, intersected occasionally with the silver ribbon of a river.

Haunting Violet

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

How to Be a Woman

Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.

Hawksmoor

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

How to Be a Woman