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Jan Peter Balkenende Quotes

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: dutch
Birth: May 7, 1956

Topics

Great Peace War World Generation

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

John Ashcroft

Father Mother Cooperation Never Like

Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.

Melanne Verveer

Women Politics Negative Rough Many

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

Michael Dorn

Love Good Comedy Bad Like I Love

I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.

Stefon Diggs

Growing Up Wrong Nobody Growing Want

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

Sonny Rollins

Think Recognition Say Jazz Need

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.

Ron White

Long Look Down Ladder Never Always

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Russell Lynes

Game Secrets Play Want Seem Like

I do not like a quiche with wet, undercooked pastry underneath, and that is that.

Mary Berry

Pastry Wet Underneath Like

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Marty Allen

Path Money Man Horse Down Him

Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that's the nature of dementia.

Judy Parfitt

Nature Moment Looking Back Start

We've always connected musically in Fleetwood Mac because we're the only people who play more than one note. I'm not the best pianist, but I know how to interlace around what Lindsey's playing.

Christine McVie

Best People Play Know Connected

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

Conrad Hall

Car Light Feet Driving Magic Stop