Quotes of Barbara Tuchman

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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

- Barbara Tuchman

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“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

“ I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. ”

- Nalini Singh

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ”

- Cleveland Amory

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ And, in the end… The love you take is equal to the love you make. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ Keep in mind that three months worth of sowing equals three months of reaping at harvest, Remember not to stop sowing your fields in all ways in life after the first three months as its easy to feel good and live off of the fields already sowed but like a meat grinder the stock will eventually run out ”

- James D Wilson

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ I constantly challenge my athletes with workouts that take them to the upper edge of their ability. Like Brett's, my philosophy is that your biggest competitor is yourself. I will never ask the impossible. But I will come close. Those who answer with courage and selfbelief instead of fear and doubt are the ones who realize their dreams. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten