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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b894d0 | No, he didn't win," Great-Uncle Merry said, and even in the clear afternoon sunshine he seemed with every word to become more remote, as ancient as the rock behind him and the old world of which he spoke." | Susan Cooper | ||
| c237d2b | The children stared at him, awed and a little afraid. For a moment he was a stranger, someone they did not know. Jane had a sudden fantastic feeling that Great-Uncle Merry did not really exist at all, and would vanish away if they breathed or spoke. | merriman | Susan Cooper | |
| 213505a | THE pathology of the poet says that "the undevout astronomer is mad";" | Arthur Edward Waite | ||
| 4190eb3 | Earning Trust & Cooperation The number one thing which stands between you and meeting a new person is tension. What is the number one thing which stands between a sales person and their prospect? You guessed it . . . tension. One of our first priorities as we initiate a first impression must be to focus on how to effectively minimize or eliminate tension. Regardless of your relationship or venue, when tension is high, trust and cooperation .. | best-motivational-speakers build-rapport communication-skills customer-service-quotes first-impressions-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes speaker-susan-young trust | Susan C. Young | |
| 79fcf68 | Great-Uncle Merry stopped reading; but the children sat as still and speechless as if his voice still rang on. The story seemed to fit so perfectly into the green land rolling below them that it was as if they sat in the middle of the past. | Susan Cooper | ||
| dbef3f6 | The Herdsman passed, nodding, the bright star Arcturus at his knee; the Bull roared by, bearing the great sun Aldebaran and the small group of the Pleiades singing in small melodic voices, like no voices he had ever heard. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 48eb231 | They are English," Merriman said. "Quite right," said Will's father. "Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We're an odd lot." | Susan Cooper | ||
| 6ed3638 | But if you work and care and are watchful, as we have tried to be for you, then in the long run the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better. | Susan Cooper | ||
| cdcd521 | Now especially since man has the strength to destroy the world, it is the responsibility of man to keep it alive, in all its beauty and marvelous joy. | Susan Cooper | ||
| a8b3ef2 | was used to teachers just putting in time, not loaded with enthusiasm. | Francine Rivers | ||
| ad311f2 | Colors come from a phenomenon called scattering. The wavelengths of light and the size of the particles determine the colors. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 78746b6 | You like this stuff?' she asked neutrally. 'Good to dance to,' I replied, a little defensively. 'Do you dance to it? Here? In your room? By yourself?' 'No, not really.' Though of course I did. | Julian Barnes | ||
| be81e80 | Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. | Julian Barnes | ||
| bf93e00 | Why does anything left-wing have to be trendy before it's read, and by the time it's trendy it's already a force for conservatism? | Julian Barnes | ||
| d8ee2e9 | I see sunrise as God's good morning, and sunset as God's good night. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 1ef7c26 | God's not disappointed in you. He's just not finished with you. That's all. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 8ce353c | His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw | conspiracy tone word-choice | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| c60c2f5 | But the girl had captured his heart and mind and soul. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| c4a811a | Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it. | leadership pride statecraft strategy | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| e0e6a48 | Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category. | job peer-pressure | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| b347cbf | To "establish despotism over such a mighty nation must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to retreat: let us retreat when we can, not when we must." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 63e337e | To plunge into passionate dispute over the trivialities of so-called honor is a queerer but not uncommon gambit of men who have just come from putting their lives at stake in serious combat, | returning-soldier | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 49d5c2d | Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times. | image impression military | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| f319ee4 | John Quincy Adams' dictum that wherever the standard of liberty was unfurled in the world, "there will be America's heart ... but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 4dbdbf5 | The writer of history, I believe, has a number of duties vis-a-vis the reader, if he wants to keep him reading. The first is to distill. He must do the preliminary work for the reader, assemble the information, make sense of it, select the essential, discard the irrelevant- above all, discard the irrelevant - and put the rest together so that it forms a developing dramatic narrative. Narrative, it has been said , is the lifeblood of history.. | politics | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 8578a81 | double et louche (a provocative phrase which could mean "double and squinting" or "equivocal" or "shady" in the sense of disreputable)." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a2d2236 | nothing to learning for I have none; nothing to youth for I was old when I began; nothing to popularity for I was hated all round.... This is the modest truth and my friends at Rome call me more god than man. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| f049c0c | Those deterrents--the brotherhood of socialists, the interlocking of finance, commerce, and other economic factors--which had been expected to make war impossible failed to function when the time came. Nationhood, like a wild gust of wind, arose and swept them aside. People | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 79da27c | The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 2a0d25b | The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey's speech proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 3336700 | The daughter is the goddess, separately or together, of Infatuation, Mischief, Delusion and Blind Folly, rendering her victims "incapable of rational choice" and blind to distinctions of morality and expedience." -- | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 7103109 | Contradictory conditions are always present. Evidence | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 734c946 | Character is fate, the Greeks believed. A hundred years of German philosophy went into the making of this decision in which the seed of self-destruction lay embedded, waiting for its hour. The voice was Schlieffen's, but the hand was the hand of Fichte who saw the German people chosen by Providence to occupy the supreme place in the history of the universe, of Hegel who saw them leading the world to a glorious destiny of compulsory Kultur, .. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 8c9d2d0 | German soldiers, posted as informers, were found dressed as peasants, even as peasant women. The latter were discovered, presumably in the course of non-military action, by their government issued underwear; but many were probably never caught, it being impossible, General Gourko regretfully admitted, to lift the skirts of every female in East Prussia. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 81ff508 | The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change. The Kaiser could not change Moltke's plan nor could Kitchener alter Henry Wilson's nor Lanrezac alter Joffre's. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 7f55e27 | the Home Secretary, a young man of thirty-seven, impossible to ignore, who, from his inappropriate post, had pelted the Prime Minister during the crisis with ideas on naval and military strategy, all of them quite sound, had produced an astonishingly accurate prediction of the future course of the fighting, and who had no doubts whatever about what needed to be done. The Home Secretary was Winston Churchill. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| dccae54 | Nineteenth-century liberalism had assumed that man was a rational being who operated naturally according to his own best interests, so that in the end, what was reasonable would prevail. On this principle liberals defended extension of the suffrage toward the goal of one man, one vote. But a rise in literacy and in the right to vote, as the event proved, did nothing to increase common sense in politics. The mob that is moved by waving the b.. | liberalism politics | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| ee7f544 | Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings | humour worldwar-i | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| a7f21d4 | If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture. | distraction focus job ministry vocation | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 96f0406 | Eventually the United States became the latter arsenal and bank of the allies, and acquired a direct interest in allied victory that was to bemuse the post war apostles of economic determinism for a long time. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 174904c | To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 83399a2 | The French right wing, opening the offensive into German-occupied Lorraine, took an old embattled path like so many in France and Belgium where, century after century, whatever the power that makes men fight brought legions tramping down the same roads, leveling the same villages. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 58babaf | He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense. | focus manners politeness | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| d9c77b1 | I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon" | self-discipline | Barbara W. Tuchman |