Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Long
  • Live
  • Family

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Order
  • U.S.
  • Crown

• I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • Actor
  • New York

• I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Comedy
  • Style
  • Bullying

• The audience is the barometer of the truth.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Audience
  • Barometer

• I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Think
  • Career
  • Interesting

• The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Real
  • Soul
  • You

• I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Different
  • Think
  • Political

• Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Past
  • Fear

• Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

  

  Usher
  • Kids
  • Mom
  • Sometimes

• May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Young

• Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Matter
  • Discipline

• Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Stupid
  • Honesty

• Monks throng like a kennel of pups from disputing with the masters who instruct them whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour.

  

  Taliesin
  • Fire
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

  

  Adrian Cronauer
  • People
  • Law
  • Simple

• I've been to Chennai several times for modelling shows and shooting ad films. It's a great place to come back to because the people are warm and welcoming. I've never had the opportunity to actually see the city, but whatever places I've been to have really caught my attention.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

  

  Jessica Hahn
  • People
  • Character

• Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the corner with spiders building nests in his hair, and he hasn't bathed for three weeks, but for whatever reason, he's more creative than the guy sitting next to him that's showered and is talking to everybody.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Guy
  • Funny

• Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Friend
  • Directions
  • Denver

• To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman