A Quote by Barbara W. Tuchman

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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Barbara W. Tuchman
American - Historian
January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

Alan Seeger

I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous

Alan Seeger

There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

Patricia Schroeder

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

Wally Schirra

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

George Henry Lewes

I have a rendezvous with life.

Countee Cullen

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Jeanette Winterson

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

Aime Cesaire

The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.

Sam Kean

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

Robert Breault

The U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But, of course, the 7th Fleet has been a presence in the region since the Second World War, and it is the most powerful fleet in the region.

Lee Hsien Loong

I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed.