Margrethe 1 Quotes & Sayings

I think a lot can be said for consolidation, but I think it should be done for the right reasons. — Margrethe Vestager

- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to? — Lewis Carroll

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years. — John F. Kennedy

Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged. — Margrethe Vestager

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it. — Margrethe Vestager

I smoke wherever there's an ashtray. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

She was beautiful in combat. I know that's a crazy thing to say, especially after we'd just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes sparkled when she was fighting for her life. Her face shone like a goddess's, and believe me, I've seen goddesses. The way her Camp Half-Blood beads rested against her throat - Okay, sorry. Got a little distracted. — Rick Riordan

I do not have an issue with specific countries or companies; what I'm interested in are schemes which allow for preferential treatment, for selectivity ... If this has to change, it's countries that will have to change this. — Margrethe Vestager

Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world? — Michael Frayn

I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.' — Margrethe Vestager

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

One short man said: "I would give anything if only I were even a tiny bit taller."
He barely said it when he saw a lady magician standing in front of him.
"What do you want?" says the magician.
But the short man just stands there so frightened he can't even speak.
"Well?" says the magician.
The short man just stands there and says nothing. The magician vanishes.
Then the short man started crying and biting his nails. First he chewed off all the nails on his fingers, and then on his toes.

Reader! Think this fable over and it will make you somewhat uncomfortable. — Daniil Kharms

He's the best prospect I've ever seen. — Branch Rickey

We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

I'm quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids. — Margrethe Vestager

There is something endearing about people who give themselves up completely to their faith. But there is likewise something frightening about such a totality, which also is a feature of Islam. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.' — Margrethe II Of Denmark

I will remain on the throne until I fall off. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

If I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this. — Charles Bukowski

It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market. — Margrethe Vestager

I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair. — Margrethe Vestager

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe. — Aage Bohr

Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best. — Chelsea Peretti

Bohr Before we can lay our hands on anything, our life's over.
Heisenberg Before we can glimpse who or what we are, we're gone and laid to dust.
Bohr Settled among all the dust we raised.
Margrethe And sooner or later there will come a time when all our children are laid to dust, and all our children's children. — Michael Frayn

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her own heart was broken, the world could contain such beauty and magic she almost could not bear it? What did her own pain matter, in the face of that? — Carolyn Turgeon