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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"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."
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."
"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years."
"I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement."
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
"If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas."
"Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?"
"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."
"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"
"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
"I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA."
"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."
"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
"Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him."
"Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!"
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."
"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards."
"When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club."
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