Sylvie Meis (Sylvie Françoise Meis) Quotes

Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.

Sylvie Meis

• Family
• Happiness
• Christmas

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• I started at the top and worked my way down.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Way
  • Down
  • Top

• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Different
  • Single
  • New

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Human
  • Dimensions
  • Refugees

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Love
  • Islam

• The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Choice
  • Innocent
  • September

• The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Party
  • Hurt
  • Tea

• La confesión de uno humilla a todos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Fire
  • Rose
  • German

• As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Long
  • Comedy

• Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.

  

  Betty White
  • People
  • Time
  • Door

• Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • American

• I'm not about anything special - I don't use a trainer or anything like that. And really just eating healthy, eating balanced, knowing what is good and, when you push it too far, easing up and getting back on track.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Good

• Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

  

  Konrad Adenauer

• In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Thoughts

• Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Real
  • Together
  • Night

• There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Great
  • Hand
  • Fighting

• Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

  

  Ali Akbar Khan
  • Time
  • Music
  • Mind

• I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Book

• Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.

  

  Sylvie Meis
  • Family
  • Happiness
  • Christmas