#performed

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible. ↗

— Allan Massie

#circumstances #performed #response #responsible #which

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#analysis #charged #cia #doing #either

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#appear #day #day to day #determined #down

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#although #art #arts #away #better

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall. ↗

— Dave Foley

#class #end #first #first class #formation

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#composer #first #four #i #i remember

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. ↗

— Michael Korda

#action #eternity #good #good action #moment

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#always #church #family #got #just

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song. ↗

— Manfred Mann

#bad performance #being #even #get #good

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. ↗

— Will Oldham

#definitely #extent #i #i write #last