#opera

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#chorus #choruses #cooperation #free #free-speech

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#cooperation #freedom #organization #revolution #freedom

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#component #desert #men #men and women #operation

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. ↗

— Robert Ashley

#i #interested #kind #me #only

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back. ↗

— Les Aspin

#autonomy #back #certain #comfortable #feel

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#gun #his #horse #i #lessons