Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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• Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

  

  Edmund White
  • Reading
  • Distance
  • Say

• Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • States
  • Competitive
  • Liberal

• Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Small
  • Change

• I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

  

  Lana Turner
  • Live
  • Man
  • Without

• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Baseball

• One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Lifetime

• We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Children
  • Know
  • Hunger

• I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Health
  • Vegetarian

• I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Science
  • You
  • Know

• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • View
  • Contrast

• I was so passionate about wanting the role in 'Like Crazy,' I filmed myself in the shower because that's where one of the scenes was set. It just felt instinctive. It was a close up! It would have been strange if I'd sent off a wide shot of myself. That's not the kind of work I want to do!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I still sleep with my baby blanket.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Sleep
  • Baby
  • Blanket

• I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Way
  • Easy
  • Hustle

• You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Why
  • Fear

• The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Dark

• When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Work
  • You
  • Puzzle

• It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.

  

  Marvin Minsky

• Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Lucky

• The United States compared to a number of our competitors is the only government in the world with any kind of safeguards, any kind of checks and balances. They may in many respects need to be strengthened and people need to be reassured, and they need to have their protections embodied in law.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Government
  • United States
  • Competitors

• I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Respect
  • Souls
  • Confession

• Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman