Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 8

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

My father's coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time.

It wasn't until I was about 16 that I began to grow and develop as a player.

That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.

As a team, you always need to show something extra in the Champions League.

If it was up to me, obviously I would start every game, but that decision is up to the coach.

I feel like in order for something to connect to an audience there needs to be a form of authenticity.

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

I love playing FIFA on my PlayStation!

Ninety percent has to come from yourself, your inner-energy, motivation to get the most out of yourself.

What is important about graphene is the new physics it has delivered.

I love pretending more than reality.

Like with 'Outlander' as well as with 'Agent Carter,' I had never heard of 'Outlander' before I got the part.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.

I think I will get plenty of playing time at Spurs - and I certainly think I can play with Harry Kane in one team.

Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we've forgotten about our inner power.

Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

Dutch girls wear a hundred mixed-metal necklaces and stack the most random earrings. It's total chaos, but it looks so good that I'm always inspired to get another ear piercing, and another.

Sure, I acted in films in the Third Reich, entertainment films, which distracted countless people inside and outside Germany from daily life during war.

We need to educate young people, give them the possibility to understand that the diversity is positive, to feel and experience it, so that they can then join forces in promoting more diverse world.

With Jose Mourinho and Rafael Benitez I played in midfield, so at that time I thought that was my position.

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

Great players must always produce and at any time or in any game. Give them a ball and a pitch, and they will show what they've got. That relaxed, calm spirit you don't really have when you are young.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore.

As a defender I try to keep clean sheets.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.

If a club has the cups it has, you have to think that Real Madrid is always capable of reaching the final and winning it.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

I'm a shareholder in three networks in Holland. That allows me to put ideas that we create in Holland on air in Holland, and if it works, then we distribute the show's format globally.

If you play at a world-class team like Chelsea, you have to perform every day.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.

I like to wear skirts long or short.

It's nice to have someone at the helm who can give you piece of mind and does not panic.

What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the genre of reality like it's television from the devil, and that's something that I don't like because I think everybody should watch what they like. It's a free world. It's a form of democracy. If you like it, watch. If you don't like it, don't watch.

I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That's what I want to do.

As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that's what we've been doing: constantly improving striking, grappling, wrestling - there's always different aspects to improve.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years.

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

If you play the same club every week of every month, it's kind of boring. It's great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It's amazing what you see if you travel around the world.

We all want to be carried away to a whole other world and have romantic tendencies about escaping to an exotic place and being swept off our feet.

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.