Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

In the midst of events there is no perspective.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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• While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • People
  • May
  • American

• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Life
  • Television
  • Being

• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Tired

• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Better
  • Tomorrow

• Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Theory

• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Mean
  • Three

• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Law
  • Contract
  • Ethereum

• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Difference
  • More

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Human
  • Dimensions
  • Refugees

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Long
  • Together
  • Band

• My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is your family.' I can remember my mom, she tells me this story: when I was little, I was looking at her, and I was like, 'Why isn't my skin the same color as yours?' She was like, 'Oh, you're adopted, but I wish I had pretty brown skin like you.'

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Political
  • Brain

• Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Like
  • Perspective

• I don't know if it's because my father's from Argentina, that I'm the son of an immigrant, I don't know if its because I'm Jewish, but I have always been mindful that the best insights occur when you have some kind of an outsider perspective.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • Father
  • Son
  • Perspective

• Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Live
  • Mean
  • Ugly

• In the midst of events there is no perspective.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Perspective