#ms

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#art #art forms #everyone #forms #important

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#answer #chain #circumstances #complicated #find

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#could #everything #fellow #fellow citizens #happen

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#call #design #fact #group #in fact

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#asked #cynicism #give #me #people

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely. ↗

— James Payn

#developed #even #feel #get #good

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether. ↗

— James Payn

#benevolent #denying #far #hear #himself

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#every #get #own #problem #problems

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#anybody #determines #developing #experience #get

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#bad #bad guy #because #calling #films