Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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• We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Yourself

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Nice
  • Couple

• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Action

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Law
  • Focus

• The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • World
  • Live
  • Trying

• I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Right

• When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Music
  • Years
  • Been

• In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Week

• If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Know
  • Play
  • Tennis

• Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Hollywood

• I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Healthy
  • Week
  • Jeans

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
  • Always
  • Old

• Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Musicians

• I can't write songs unless I am in love.

  

  Kevin Ayers

• Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Fingers
  • Hurts

• I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Begin
  • Hypothesis
  • Instances

• [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Together
  • Soul
  • Past

• I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

  

  Matisyahu
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Firsts

• The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Humanity
  • Mysterious