D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

... new EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together.

One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth; One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

Everybody has their reasons.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

I've spent my life making blunders.

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

Only Bayern Munich really have some sort of a guarantee to win if they only catch a good day. All the others need really good days to win. I like that.

When I arrive at our training ground at Borussia Dortmund, everybody could hear just that a few seconds before I can actually be seen. Everybody knows it's me. I love to hear the machine working.

We have our ambitions [in Dortmund Borussia], and of course I would love to win some titles after some years of finishing second or losing finals.

Few years ago I did 30m in 3.7 seconds. Whether that makes me quicker than [Usain] Bolt, I don't know! We all know Usain is the best.

The mentality of coaches and players alike [in Bundesliga]. It's all about winning.

There have been miraculous stories in the history of big football events all around the globe, with host nations achieving fantastic results and even winning titles with the support of their fans.

Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.

Our century is a brutal thinker.

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.

Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

I have no need for that hypothesis.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?

In the end, only the truth will survive.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Even when you don't see Him working, He's busy working on your behalf. Forever grateful for God's grace!

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.

It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities.

It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it.

Sometimes you will let go meet others, travel, experience beautiful things, but there's always someone you feel is home.

If my fall made you smile, you might not want to witness what's about to happen when I get up.

I like the imp / in impossibility

Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there and fill it!

Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance?