#opera

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship. ↗

— John R. Allen

#afghan #afghanistan #conduct #day #defines

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ↗

— Eric Ambler

#business #conduct #human #human blood #ink

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#build #cannot #every #every step #globalization

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. ↗

— Dario Argento

#dark #film #hope #hopeless #love

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#beginning #coming #cooperation #courtesy #here

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#feeling #good #opera #people #plot

The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#find #how #know #operate #organization

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#choice #competition #consumers #direction #fair

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#baroque #classic #composers #even #greatest

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#composer #consider #everything #first #opera