Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Major Taylor
For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
Ed Rendell
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
Lady Gaga
I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
Aaron Paul
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
Kate Smith
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
Karl Malone
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
Ingmar Bergman
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.
Mary Beard
When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
R. A. Torrey
I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
Barbara W. Tuchman