Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

The Lord of the Rings

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

Minding the Body

...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her...

Magic in the Backyard

manusia mungkin tidak punya kapasitas untuk mengampuni (barangkali hanya Tuhan yang bisa mengampuni), maka yang bisa kita lakukan adalah berdamai. Berdamai dengan sisi gelap yang tak bisa kita kuasai

Manjali dan Cakrabirawa

Tak pernah ada yang salah dengan cinta. Ia mengisi sesuatu yang tidak kosong. Tapi yang terjadi di sini adalah asmara, yang mengosongkan sesuatu yang semula ceper. Dengan rindu. Belum tentu nafsu.

Saman

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

Slavery in Massachusetts

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

The Palace the Palace

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

Tender: Volume I: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch

...a hazy yellow moon was climbing along the curve of the old basilica on the hill. As it rose, it seemed to be gathering the silence up around it like a net.

The Tiger's Wife

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

What Would Google Do?

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?

Woman: An Intimate Geography

Such is the disconcerting miracle of good acting; at its best it implicitly challenges our faith in who we are, who anyone is.

Whip Smart: A Memoir

An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful.

Why Bother Praying?

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.

Your Voice in My Head

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

Your Voice in My Head

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

Your Voice in My Head

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange a...

Ben Macintyre

I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite bala...

Charles Krauthammer