Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors

Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.

I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.

I was born in Iran, my parents are Armenian. We fled from Iran to the Netherlands when I was eight years old. We had a lot of family and friends in Iran, so it was hard to leave, especially for my parents. But we managed to settle well in the Netherlands, after a year in refugee camps. But I understood it was a process.

Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again.

Why be negative when you can enjoy life and be positive? That's something I learned over the years.

If you are not forced to change, then there are no reasons to change.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

A new project can offer you a new challenge.

Visually, my trademarks have always been my glasses and hair.

You don't always have to win beautiful.

To me, new friends, new genres, new person-to person chemistry is the DNA of EDM.

It's always best if you can leave with a good memory.

That's my motto: dream, believe, achieve.

With Ajax and Liverpool, you win about 80 per cent of matches.

Great moments of entertainment, great football, unforgettable evenings. I think that's what it's all about: experience, emotions, and the special touch that the Champions League brings on and off the field.

The real 'Lord of the Flies' is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other.

If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.

The most important thing is to stay down to earth and keep concentrating on the next game.

Every culture has its own way of showing passion.

In the end, I think in F1 it is very hard for a girl.

For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.

Before we talk about stylish performance, we need to think about winning. That's the most important thing.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

It's good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.

Kris Commons and Scott Brown are key players for Celtic.

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.

I'm an atheist. I don't have a religion.

'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on.

Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

I just hope I can give positive energy to the squad.

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air pollution, heating, technology. But you have to know you have a depth within yourself which needs to be stimulated. If it doesn't get stimulated it becomes weaker, like a muscle that's not being used any more.

Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing.

The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.

For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Being team-mate to Michael Schumacher at Benetton in my first year of Formula One was certainly a high pressure situation.

I think my biggest strength is that I always keep doing exactly the same thing. There are forwards who go crazy with euphoria, but after a goal, I let myself fall back to the midfield, recharge. Keeping yourself cool and concentrated on your mission.

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.

As a defender it can also be more frustrating to play in Italy because referees do not tolerate too much physical contact. I loved the physical nature of the game in England, but in Serie A I only have to look at a player and they sometimes fall to the floor!

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.

No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.

I maintain a healthy lifestyle all year round for my job, but I definitely try to eat extra clean the night before a shoot and make sure to fit in a workout so that I feel my best.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.