#opera

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#art form #become #breathing #breathing thing #form

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward. ↗

— Mark Foley

#company #deal #determine #differently #forward

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#amount #certain #control #customary #even

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#cancel #communication #diplomatic #during #even

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#good #in my opinion #lot #making #making money

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#beat #been #divorced #had #how

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#always #better #chinese #chinese food #comes

Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south. ↗

— Greg Walden

#canada #curb #engaged #help #made

That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#gone #great #having #hussein #iraq

I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#communities #cooperation #down #get #ground