To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was ...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of pub...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the ...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands t...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity ...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who ar...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c...
BARBARA TUCHMAN A relentless talent for tactlessness.
BARBARA TUCHMAN Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, se...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent f...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prev...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you&#...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the tr...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they canno...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN A relentless talent for tactlessness.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who ar...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less tha...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN In his message to Congress on December 3, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt said, “Anarchism is a crime aga...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The country listened to thousands of speeches and read thousands of newspaper columns raking over ev...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN He said, “McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity f...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Officers succumbed to the spirit of conspirators.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Everything interested him and everything excited him.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was do...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN One aristocratic leader's club was known for, "an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every lis...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The scene is France. The theater is the world.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don'...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representativ...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur a...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn'...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN He believed that rank without power was a sham.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even w...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the We...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity ...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN They resented the patronage they depended upon.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his ...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN In a dependent relationship, the protégé can always control the protector by threatening to collap...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Society's revenge matched its fright.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone e...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Can the military art be learned in the games and hunts in which you pass your youth?” The
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN There are a lot of opportunities (in China) that we continue to look at but we want to do it right.
BRUCE TUCHMAN Our success and growth in Asia mirrors our success and growth elsewhere around the world. Over the l...
BRUCE TUCHMAN People understand that if I want to see Alex Rodriguez in a Yankee uniform, they're going to have to...
ROB TUCHMAN The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho...
BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK