#orc

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#bad #control #day #force #good

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#cannot #directed #done #employing #forced

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#having #i #interested #itself #like

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#forces #necessary #peace #terrorism #undermining

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#angeles #arrangements #away #band #baxter

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance. ↗

— Sarah Ferguson

#circumstance #divorce #had #i #want

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. ↗

— Eric Holder

#congress #death #death penalty #enforce #gives

Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#humor #wine #age

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. ↗