Duty was not untinged by ambition.
– Barbara W Tuchman
Related Quotes:
- Ambition’s ambition is immortality. To create an eternal legacy. – Renzo Dante Saligiare
- A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers. – Neel Burton
- You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition. – Amit Kalantri
- Books are humanity in print. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air – and nothing did. – Barbara Tuchman
- Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings – Barbara W Tuchman
- Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – Barbara W Tuchman
- House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Diplomacy’s primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION. – Barbara W Tuchman
- The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman. – Barbara W Tuchman
- A minister’s (cabinet member’s) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors. – Barbara W Tuchman
- The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke – Barbara W Tuchman
- He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within. – Barbara W Tuchman
- In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense. – Barbara W Tuchman
- They resented the patronage they depended upon. – Barbara W Tuchman
- He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea. – Barbara W Tuchman
- If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture. – Barbara W Tuchman
- How much does a man’s effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII – Barbara W Tuchman
- No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come. – Barbara W Tuchman
- The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony. – Barbara W Tuchman
- All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government? – Barbara W Tuchman
- Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Everything took on the color of blood. – Barbara W Tuchman
- The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. -“ Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed – Barbara W Tuchman
- Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher – Barbara W Tuchman
- His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw – Barbara W Tuchman
- He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense. – Barbara W Tuchman
- That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man’s occasional triumphs over medicine. – Barbara W Tuchman
- England’s traditional tolerance was outraged at last. – Barbara W Tuchman
- The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to. – Barbara W Tuchman
- He believed that rank without power was a sham. – Barbara W Tuchman
- The affair made men feel larger than life. – Barbara W Tuchman
- One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral. – Barbara W Tuchman
- The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous. – Barbara W Tuchman