Margrethe Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Aage Bohr

#4. Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head.
'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

Erin Morgenstern

#5. I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

Margrethe II Of Denmark

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

Napoleon Hill

#9. I will remain on the throne until I fall off.

Margrethe II Of Denmark

#10. 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

#11. A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time. So does it accord with good sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

Trisha Yearwood

#13. Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.

Margrethe Vestager

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

Al Jarreau

#18. I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.'

Margrethe Vestager

#19. I think a lot can be said for consolidation, but I think it should be done for the right reasons.

Margrethe Vestager

#20. Don't think about making money, think about making a difference, spot where others are doing it badly and do it better

Richard Branson

#21. Your life is your path.
It's what's right in front of you.
You can't walk down anyone else's path.
The task is to live your own and
to not try to follow someone else's path
just because you think it looks better.

Jose N. Harris

#22. 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

#23. I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.

Margrethe II Of Denmark

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

Philip Kitcher

#27. 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

#28. Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.

Bernie Sanders

#29. If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

J.M. Coetzee

#30. The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.

Rebecca Solnit

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

Klaus Fuchs