#opera

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#conflict #constant #cooperation #does #frustrated

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#i #operate #pressure #stop #threats

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#although #attitude #basic #becoming #english

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. ↗

— Henry S. Haskins

#adopt #attitude #correct #each #experience

Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera ↗

— Gaston Leroux

#handsome #love #phantom-of-the-opera #ugly #love

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face. ↗

— Eric Holder

#among #any #become #citizen #decision

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation. ↗

— Eric Holder

#cannot #eliminating #head #importance #know

Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used. ↗

— Eric Holder

#concept #department #execution #fast #flawed

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#antagonism #bring #cooperation #each #fact

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#enforcement #kind #more #much #operation