Thorning Schmidt Quotes

#1. We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#2. It smelled something like a keg of bad beer overturned in a mortician's storage room on a hot summer's day.

Scott Lynch

#3. I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she gave me the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. When you mercilessly fire deadly bullets at innocent people taking part in a debate, when you attack the Jewish community, you attack our democracy, we will do everything possible to protect our Jewish community.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#5. For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#6. I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#7. So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#8. Do you know how we tell the difference between black bear and grizzly bear scat back in Wyoming? Black bear droppings have berries and the Grizzly bear droppings contain little bells and smell like pepper.

Victoria Vane

#9. People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#10. Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done - peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#12. I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

Scott Adams

#13. This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#14. The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they will look at the copy.

John Caples

#15. No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one,

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#16. It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.

Faith Hunter

#17. Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#18. I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#19. Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#20. We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule ... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#21. Um, we don't hit women in America." He scowled, and spit out an apple seed. "No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.

Donna Tartt

#22. Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#23. Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#24. We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#25. May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that you have a special destiny here, that behind the facade of your life, something beautiful, good, and eternal is happening.

John O'Donohue

#26. I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#27. With things like Facebook, it's really easy to think that you know someone that you really don't.

Megan M. Duffy

#28. I really appreciate the British part of my family.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#29. How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Dinah Maria Mulock

#30. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

Swami Vivekananda

#31. He would die at her hands. He knew it, with sudden lightening clarity. The man he had struggled so hard to become, the all-powerful, all-knowing Simon of Navarre, would be destroyed by a woman's heart.

Anne Stuart

#32. There is an equation that I like to use when looking at my life's progress:
Current Worth - Past Worth = Progress or Regression

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#33. We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt