AtomicQuote

Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

One aristocratic leader's club was known for, an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation.

Barbara W. Tuchman

One aristocratic leader's club was known for, an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation.

Tags: thought life

Related Quotes

Walking through darkness with thoughts full of colors".

Prajakta Mhadnak

Walking through darkness with thoughts full of colors".

Tags: colorful, colors of imagination, colors of life, darkness, darkness rising, hope, hopeful, hopeful and encouraging, thought life, thought of the day

Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.

Germany Kent

Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.

Tags: attitude, attitude inspiration, attitude toward life, attitude towards life, attitudes, change, change your life, changing, day, day by day

Pain is there when you are born,Its the very first thing you feel when you come in to the world.Then why run? Face it head on, cry in it,laugh in it because in the end pain is what you will remember.

Akash Lakhotia

Pain is there when you are born,Its the very first thing you feel when you come in to the world.Then why run? Face it head on, cry in it,laugh in it because in the end pain is what you will remember.

Tags: inspirational, inspirational attitude, literature, non fiction, nonfiction, pain, philosophical, philosophy, philosophy of life, philosphy

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

Robert Kurson

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

Tags: distraction, spiritual warfare, suffering, thought life

What was it St. Augustine said? The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Frank Herbert

What was it St. Augustine said? The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Tags: self discipline, thought life

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own...

Harold Bloom

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own...

Tags: reading, thought life

Naturally all of us don't think we deserve very much. We don't believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent is to expect the...

Lisa Bedrick

Naturally all of us don't think we deserve very much. We don't believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent is to expect the...

Tags: belief, believing, faith, future, god, holy spirit, hope, jesus, love, negative

One of the most effective ways of changing the way people think is to change the way they worship.

Reformation Thought

One of the most effective ways of changing the way people think is to change the way they worship.

Tags: culture, emotion, thought life, work, worship

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

Frank Herbert

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

Tags: perspective, thought life

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

Frank Herbert

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

Tags: discipleship, ministry, thought life
About Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.