Quotes by Danish/Denmark authors (page 3)

"Where words fail, music speaks"

"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers"

"The most wonderful result of all education is to make you do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"School is a foretaste of life"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Being gifted needs courage"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

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