Barbara Quotes
Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.
William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.
Duty was not untinged by ambition.
Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
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.
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke
He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.
Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.
In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.
-a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow.
We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier. . . . Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.
If you only think of yourself, there's no room for another in marriage.
Dragonsbane, they called him.Slayer of dragons.Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that.
The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.
You cannot blame our decisions on anyone, Moriah. They were all made byyou, alone.Clarion, to MoriahAngels Unaware
She despised weakness, especially her own. She'd seared most of heremotional needs with the white-hit iron of self-reliance andindependence years before.~Angels Unaware
And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce
And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle
And the One will reveal the Bow of the Southern Star and conquer the enemy with courage and fine judgment. The sight of the One is true and the enemy cannot hide. Griffon will fly
A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the "laws.
Even his own speeches bored him.
Your thoughts and attitudes today chart your destiny tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that.
What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.
...and in Wellington women in the bakery trade were able "to perform certain skilled operations for which they are particularly suited, at rate equivalent to two thirds the journeyman's rate".
man equate their self-esteem with accomplishment
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
... there is nothing stronger than a woman who has beaten her way back from being beaten down in the first place.
Drama entered my home last week, but I ushered it to the door and tossed it to the curb.
Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it.
And be grateful that you’re a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what’s between her ears.
The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me
There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold -- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
I am not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.
I'm not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.