#pera

The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera. ↗

— Emilia Pardo Bazán

#opera #political #dictatorship

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#change

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#carmen #georges-bizet #habanera #opera #love

I'm a new man, Giovanni. If you want to imitate me, you'll have to abandon the mask and get a face like this one." Erik smiled mirthlessly at his young nemesis, his teeth shining madly in the dim light of piazza. "You can't have her! She loves me. The mask won't do. You could never giver what she wants, because she wants me!" Giovanni tried to follow Meg and Roul, but each time he shifted Erik was there. ↗

— Sadie Montgomery

#giovanni #meg-giry #phantom-of-the-opera #raoul #vicomte-de-chagny

I love you once, I love you twice, I love you more than beans & rice. ↗

— Mike Delfino Desperate Housewives

#desperate-housewives #funeral-speech #goodbye #love #mike-delfino

All of us--bright atheists and committed religionists--need to wake now and hear the earth call . . . . We need to give and receive as love shows us how, join with each pilgrim who quests for the true, give heed to the voices of the suffering, awaken our consciences with justice as our guide, and work toward a planet transformed by our care. ↗

— Scotty McLennan

#love

We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#love #peace #unity #love

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#cooperative #individuality #love #purpose-of-living #understanding-oneself-and-others

New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one goes outside without letting me know. I had these horrible images in my head of kids being restrained against their wills, of kids crying my name out, begging me to help them when I was powerless. Desperate times… Lord, my soul called out. Lord…somehow that’s as far as I could get. I didn’t have the words. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #government #laura-anderson-kurk #love #orphanage

The two of them were like oil and water. Her older sister was forever stuck in surrogate mommy role. But Viviana had never needed, nor wanted a replacement mother. Fate had seen fit to remove her biological mother, so she figured that was the way it was supposed to be. ↗

— A. T. Hicks

#love-hate-relationship #opera-singer #sibling-rivalry #love