Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 5

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

Renewable energy could reduce emissions but also create jobs and improve public health.

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.

I love this style: get the ball back quickly, then play possession with so many combinations. When you watch that, you get the feeling you want to go out on the pitch and play football with your friends and just enjoy yourself. City and Barcelona are great examples.

The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

You hope to bring your 'A Game' to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.

There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me.

If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five several protuberances or risings, each ending in a point and altogether forming a kind of enclosure.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

Every time I walked into White Hart Lane, I got goosebumps. I felt so privileged to play there, to make the people happy.

Spending most of my time on chess there is not much else I can be much good at but I enjoy spending time with my wife, parents, siblings and friends, listening to music, some sports, the Web and well... the usual stuff.

It's always the losers who are complaining about a result.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

I never get complacent with anything.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination - these must become standard global operating conditions.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Messi is unique. Inimitable and unrepeatable. Like him, one every fifty years. As a child, he fell into the pot of the football genius.

I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'

Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

It was always a dream for me as a kid to become the No 1 DJ in the world.

I take really good care of my body.

In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

I'm an electronic guy, I'm a freak for electronic music but real instruments, the dynamic range of it, and the emotions, there's no comparison.

Too many DJs today want to be the headline act without ever knowing what it takes to be the local DJ who's busting his or her gut to perfect their craft.

At 14, I was modeling, which helped me come out of my shell, but I always dreamed of theater school.

When I was playing with ADO Den Hag in the youth teams at that time I was quite strong because I was used to older people.

The media likes me because I give honest answers. How many people in football give honest answers? I don't lie. Always the truth. OK, maybe my truth. But it is the truth.

When I am on the pitch, I play on intuition, but I think a lot about the game as well.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.

You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America.

People are stupid, what can I say. They don't know who's a real fighter or not.

I had never really paid attention to makeup before, it was just mascara and eyeliner. But then I was watching The Hills, and I was really insecure and they looked amazing and I wanted to look like that.

When you constantly claim you are the best, people start to believe that. I see that happen a lot. You can convince a lot of people by talking, even if that has nothing to do with your actual performances. But that's not my thing.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

I am definitely a summer person. Don't get me wrong: I love winter when it's beautiful and sunny - I don't really care about cold - I just hate the grey.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

I love suits, but onstage it's too hot. So, I like a nice T-shirt!

When you look at the humanitarian issues - poverty, education, rights, violence - I think there are positive trends. But when you look at climate change, at plastic pollution and other forms of pollution, at overconsumption, it's a different story.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of sticklebacks.

We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunities in India.