Madame Butterfly Puccini Quotes

#1. There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

James Dyson

#2. Ideas do not need weapons.

Fidel Castro

#3. Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

Maynard James Keenan

#4. You have to treat people the way you want to be treated, because ultimately, you're not gonna get anywhere if you're just mean to people.

Selena Gomez

#5. It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Pat Summitt

#6. True love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas Spirit.

Thomas S. Monson

#7. If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

Isabel Paterson

#8. I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.

David Sedaris

#9. Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

Albert Camus

#10. I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

Jason Reitman

#11. What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

John Wooden

#12. Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

David McCandless

#13. The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

Giacomo Puccini

#14. Thus heaven's gift to us is this:
That habit takes the place of bliss.

Alexander Pushkin

#15. The greatest good is what we do for others.

Mother Teresa

#16. For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.

E. Nesbit