Hollanders Quotes & Sayings

He is happy whom the Muses love. For though a man has sorrow and grief in his soul, yet when the servant of the Muses sings, at once he forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles. Such is the holy gift of the Muses to men. — Hesiod

It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. — Thomas Gage

Character, mon cher, does not stand still. It can gather strength. It can also deteriorate. What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes - that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet. — Agatha Christie

If a ship's coming in from a port known to have plague of some kind, the damned Hollanders make the sailors swim ashore naked. — Diana Gabaldon

At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text, we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the lightbulb. — Corrie Ten Boom

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them. — William Dampier

Stop being the victim with the delusion that you're saving yourself. It's okay to let someone save you. — Shantaye Brown

In general, what we want to do is to elevate Volvo's brand positioning, and we feel the main lever to achieve that is to develop more higher-tier products. — Li Shufu

On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations! — Svetlana Alliluyeva

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius. — Gordon B. Hinckley

It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved. — John Motson

My writings are reflections of my momentary thoughts, imaginations, and love for you and life in this world as a whole. — Debasish Mridha

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. — Luigi Pirandello