Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.

Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

Being passive is not the same as being peaceful. If you aren't doing what you know, in your heart, you want to do, you are NOT going with the flow. You are going against the flow. Your reactions, emot...

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?