#pera

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#attempt #bold #considered #desperate #generally

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beautiful #beauty #being #certain #correct

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#any #art #command #course #demand

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. ↗

— James K. Polk

#among #congress #create #disreputable #embarrasses

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#both #choice #city #cold #first

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. ↗

— Colin Powell

#any #anyone #be prepared #become #country

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent. ↗

— John Prescott

#billion #buy #desperately #discount #given

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#acids #changed #food #high #need

As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#being #building #chief #dominant #facebook

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#aversion #communists #cooperating #does #fact