Quotes by Danish/Denmark authors (page 4)

"My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation"

"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"The primary factor is proportions"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

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Quotes by Danish authors