Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 3

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

This is a full-contact sport. It's the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You've got to use your technique.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

It's interesting what happens when you take on a role, I think. What happens to me - without sounding too spiritual or too hippy, I guess - what happens, most of the time, you do a lot of research, and you get into the character, and at a certain moment, it's like the character takes over.

My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.

You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.

It is always sad when a player has to drop out injured.

Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

I try to have a picture when I receive the ball and know where everyone is. That's one of the most important things for a midfielder.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.

I was just picked from the streets to do some acting, and that's how I got started.

Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

Never waste a crisis.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Every team learns when they lose a game.

Playing for a Champions League place is not enough. It is not my target, but it is a target we have to take.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

I'm not a guy who believes in revenge.

I was actually quite small when I was young. No one believes me now, but I have pictures at home.

You need luck, you need your key players, you need to be in the best shape, you need all of that to be champions.

Arthritis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, depression - all of those diseases are a result of our neglected biochemistry. We need to be stimulated to help fight disease. Cold is a great stimulator.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.

Prevention is better than cure.

Yes, my teacher is the cold.

Daley Blind, Georginio Wijnaldum and Kevin Strootman too. They are examples of how you should behave as a top player.

My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.

Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

Working together on solving something requires a high level of humility and a high level of self-awareness.

You want to be the biggest, the greatest. I hope I can be that big in England.

If there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women's final, that's a difference. So it's not the same.

I try not to stop too long and look at the things that I am doing or have done because I feel like there is still a lot more work that I have to do.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

The European Union cannot be compared to the United States. America is a nation, but Europe is not. Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. Robbing them of their national democracies does not create a European democracy - it destroys democracy in Europe.

Every player gets his time, no matter who you are.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I do some business and work for television, talking about football.

There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too.

Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.