#verdi

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#committed #consultation #democracy #national #popular

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. ↗

— John Acton

#dead #nations #off #past #reign

I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that. ↗

— Edwin Edwards

#anything #did #even #governor #i

Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached. ↗

— David Gill

#anonymously #been #emotive #even #had

It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict. ↗

— Jonathan King

#accuser #adverse #anonymity #fair #guaranteed

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence. ↗

— Leonard Peikoff

#evidence #his #man #must #own

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. ↗

— Witold Pilecki

#arrested #ask #carried #deciding #had

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#mozart #opera #shakespeare #verdi #wagner

The verdict of the world is conclusive. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#verdict #world

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#closing #deal #end #friend #having