Bryn Terfel Quotes

I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.

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• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fall

• I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Live
  • Want
  • Chance

• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Free
  • Win
  • Season

• Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Road
  • Take

• If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Country
  • Power
  • History

• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • May
  • Change

• We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • War
  • Society
  • Strong

• I hate downtime.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Hate
  • Downtime

• 'Aye. Like knows like, sister'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sister

• Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Women
  • Audience
  • Nude

• Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Progress

• It is remarkable that since Nekhludoff understood that he was disgusted with himself, others ceased to be repulsive to him.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

• Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Evil
  • Wisdom
  • Shadow

• ...ingratitude is more common than you might think.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?

  

  Colin Powell
  • Thinking

• At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Different
  • Book
  • Quality

• The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Parents

• I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.

  

  Kent McCord
  • Work
  • Baby

• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Natural

• At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid.

  

  Annette Messager
  • Work
  • Man
  • Stupid

• I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.

  

  Bryn Terfel