#nation

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. ↗

— Maria Callas

#becomes #before #begins #come #curtain

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities. ↗

— Chris Cannon

#because #borders #broken #cities #coming

Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#delaware #delaware state #determination #faced #family

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#certain #controlled #countries #covenant #envisaged

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#activities #behaviour #changes #combination #comprise

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#chi #every #his #imprint #just

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#civilians #could #extermination #justify #scale

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#even #gnawing #may #nation #rat

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#could #early #george #george w #i