Top 845 Quotes & Sayings by Belgian Authors - Page 6

I'm a bit of a melting pot, I try to speak British, but there's some European lilt - a not-so-conventional one because I'm Belgian, from the Flemish part. Dutch was my mother language, and I learned English, and I speak French, too.

As wealthy as you are, nothing, nothing, nothing guarantees you that through a breakdown of relationship, your kids won't end up on the streets. It's nothing to do with wealth: sometimes it can be down to other things, like the breakdown of relationships.

My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

Italy will always have the best food.

The prime minister in Belgium gave our album to Barack Obama. I was really surprised that he decided to give a CD of us.

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

For employers, mobility no longer means merely traditional expatriate placements, but moving jobs to where talented people are located.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

Obviously, portraying a mermaid is a very different kind of work, especially when compared to any other character you'd probably get asked to play in a show.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

I consider myself half Spanish.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

Football in Italy is crazy and the people are very crazy, too, so I think we are used to it.

I'm not going to lay about after my career. My wife will work, too.

I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

I am rarely injured.

It's flattering to be linked with clubs, the rumours give me confidence but I just try to do my best every game.

Given the rapid rate of change, the old paradigm of one-off education followed by a career will no longer work: life-long learning is a must, and it is up to governments and employers to invest in training and for employees to commit to constantly update their skill set.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

I think people generally have a good heart and the intention to help.

I've worked really hard, but it's definitely not been easy.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.

I had to suffer, I had to fight, and now I feel great.

If you hear big clubs are interested, it's always nice to know people appreciate what you do, but when Tottenham said, 'We want him,' I didn't have to think twice.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

It's nice to win a trophy every season and say every year, 'OK, I won something.'

In our perform agenda, segmentation is one of our key strategic priorities. Segmentation is about deploying the right go-to-market channel to the right customers with the right pricing and the right cost to serve. And as a result, the segmentation strategy ensures that we generate profitable growth.

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

Always be focused and never let it go - that's something I've learned so much. I learned that from Simeone.

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

My mum and dad did everything for me. They supported me, gave me a lot of advice. That support is everything. It gives you the confidence you need.

If you don't have ambition to be one of the best, someone will always come and take your place.

If you want to be one of the best, you have to look at the best.

I was not interested by cinema when I was young.

There are a lot of things you learn from playing wide. You also understand the way that you can coordinate with the front three or front two.

I've been in big clubs, but I want to achieve titles with Valencia.

I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success.

You need to be 100% focused all match long against Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

The over-60s have to be seen less as receivers - of welfare, of help - or targeted consumers, and more as participants, both in our economy and our society.

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.

That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

In the younger ages, maybe you can rely more on your talent, but when you get older, you see that when you combine it with hard work, you can get everything out of your potential, and that's what I'm striving to do - to get everything out of my potential.

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

Every day in normal training, I'm trying to score more. And after training, I stay to practise my shooting as well.

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

I've learned how to trust someone else's ideas with mine.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

I'm up at 6 A.M. and start my day with 20 minutes of meditation.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

When I saw Iker play at the beginning, what most caught my attention is that a goalkeeper of 18 could stand the pressure of the Bernabeu. He had to be very strong.