Tuchmans Quotes & Sayings

What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship. — Lorin Morgan-Richards

This is called My Youth in Vienna. It's a very nice edition
an association copy, Schnitzler to his Latin master, one Johann Auer, 'with thanks for the Auerisms.' [ ... ] Here he apologizes for writing so much on 'the so-called Jewish question.' But he says that no Jew, no matter how assimilated, was allowed to forget the fact of his birth. [ ... ] 'Even if you managed to conduct yourself so that nothing showed, it was impossible to remain completely untouched; as for instance a person may not remain unconcerned whose skin has been anesthetized but who has to watch, with his eyes open, how it is scratched by an unclean knife, even cut until the blood flows.' [ ... ] He wrote that in the early 1900s. The imagery is very chilling, is it not, in the light of what followed ... — Geraldine Brooks

Every time I hear a Republican talking about health care reform, they say the American people don't want it. They say it so much that I think they're beginning to try to convince themselves that it's true. — John Yarmuth

For to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan — Jane Austen

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place. — Sally Phillips

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream — Ron Pickering

Keep your hand moving. (Don't pause to reread the line you have just written. That's stalling and trying to get control of what you're saying.) — Natalie Goldberg

Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested." — Jon Bon Jovi

The more you will able to trust yourself, the more joy and peace you will able to experience. — Debasish Mridha