#pera

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#insuperable #obstacle #progress

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. ↗

— Andy Grove

#during #era #fantasy #growing #growing up

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.' ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#cancer #done #drinking #had #hand

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats. ↗

— John Hoeven

#boats #closer #combination #cooperation #education

The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department. ↗

— Harold Edward Holt

#britain #cooperation #degree #department #dominions

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#awful #celebration #choose #could #desperate

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#desperately #i #next #next year #reading

There's this huge number of desperate people. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#huge #huge number #number #people

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#air #air force #experience #extension #faster

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#freer #government #less #markets #needs