Top 845 Quotes & Sayings by Belgian Authors - Page 7

In Europe, we see the underlying strength of the economy, especially in southern European countries.

Belgium is a safe country.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

I'm a good marker, and I have a nice, long pass.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.

When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

I was very well received by Dortmund, by the whole club. I felt a lot of love; a footballer is stronger when he has confidence.

If you want to win you have to attack, so I'm not gonna stop attacking.

If I'm called on, I want to be ready and efficient.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

I think the San Sebastian victory and and my European time trial title, and the second place in the worlds, really changed my life and my career a lot.

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

I just like to play, to pass the ball and dribble.

Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other.

Music is like a medicine.

In Russia, they have Rusalkis, and they have Selkies in Scotland, and in Fiji, you have a special mention of it. The first earliest mermaid mentioned in history books was Atargartis in Assyria, a thousand B.C... In Africa, you have Mami Wata.

A loving heart is an inventive one.

When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose.

I'm not going to say the Dutch league is naive but they all play to win. In the Premier League, you have teams with a different idea.

Chelsea feels like a big family.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.

I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.

I'm very fast, I'm very strong, and I work a lot.

Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie are two of the best strikers in the league and the reason I came to the Premier League was to play against people like them.

My physique? It is a gift from God.

In the wake of digitalization megatrends such as mobile Internet, the Internet of things, and big data, digital innovations are creating development opportunities faster than ever.

I always try to manage the ball in a way that can help the way my teammates receive it.

Once you achieve a goal and you are on that high, you have to consciously pull yourself in to say, 'I need to have the same hunger and desire as when I had nothing.' That's the hardest thing to do in life. That is getting challenged every single day once you win titles.

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.

I'm enjoying the Premier League; I'm enjoying playing for Southampton - I love the club, and I love the supporters.

When I was coming through, I had very little support from the older players. I always said to myself that if I make it, I never want to be that kind of person. I have a passion for seeing young players develop, so every young player who comes into the first team, I am willing to listen. I will give him everything I have.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

It's good in tennis that you don't have to be big or a tall guy to be good. Otherwise I had no chance to get in the top 20.

You have to fight for each point.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

When I lived in Holland, it was a lot of television, watching Netflix all the time. You eat at 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, you are finished at 8, and then you go lay down. You rest. That's what I did in Holland.

I've been five times to Mali, and when you're there, it makes you feel differently, like you realise you've a lot in life to be thankful for, and you have to give something back as well.

Over time, diversity has come to be acknowledged as an essential enhancer of corporate productivity, performance, and talent engagement.

We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.

I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.

I like to speak with more experienced people - with the staff, the manager - and get a lot of advice. But from a young age, I always remember that talent is good, but hard work beats talent.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

To be on the bench is not the nicest thing.