#opera

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#cooperation #government #must #plan #succeed

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#drama #get #must #opera #play

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#built #came #composer #composers #concept

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual. ↗

— Gary North

#christ #commander #few #few people #his

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons. ↗

— Yoshiro Mori

#cooperate #countries #created #environment #hope

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#between #chance #difference #god #operations

The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other. ↗

— Thomas Stallkamp

#attitude

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. ↗

— Francis Wright

#appear #attentive #best #consideration #cooperation

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ↗

— Josh Groban

#either #opera #rock #rock star #shower

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded. ↗

— David Sedaris

#soap-operas #family