Makropulos Quotes & Sayings

As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,' 'Billy Budd,' 'Peter Grimes,' 'The Crucible,' 'Lost in the Stars,' 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'The Makropulos Case' and Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera. — Karen DeCrow

Man has responsibility, not power. — Peter Tuscarora

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

When the injunction was issued in Birmingham, our failure to obey it bewildered our opponents. They did not know what to do. We did not hide our intentions. In fact, I announced our plan to the press, pointing out that we were not anarchists advocating lawlessness, but that it was obvious to us that the courts of Alabama had misused the judicial process in order to perpetuate injustice and segregation. Consequently, we could not, in good conscience, obey their findings. I intended to be one of the first to set — Martin Luther King Jr.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. — David Rockefeller

What's amazing is that she was possessed by Satan for almost a year and nobody noticed anything unusual! — MaryJanice Davidson

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces. — Albert Schweitzer

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian. — Paul Tournier

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion. — J.K. Rowling

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor. — Elizabeth Peters

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence. — Felicia Hemans

My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite. — Grimes

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet. — Leonard Shlain

Art is more engaging that propaganda. — Larry Norman