“A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.” ShouldFirstsDifficultPartyPiecesDirectorsBasesAppearanceImpressionChosenConductorContainingFirst Date Author:Leonard Slatkin
“The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.” PeopleFirstsMatterHousePositionBuildingHabitTasteChosenHollandBuilding Houses Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern
“My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.” FirstsFatherNamesWalksKnownMiddleChosenHillsAncestorSolitaryChaptersVersesSelected Author:Immanuel Velikovsky
“O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.” KnowsMenFirstsCausesNumbersFeetJudgingDelightGods WillChosenDoctrineEsteemMortalsMakersPrimalPredestination Author:Dante Alighieri