Myrthe van der Meer quote: "Dit is geen kroeg of studentehuis. Dit is een ziekenhuis en het is niet de bedoeling dat hier 's avonds een jolige of rumoerige sfeer hangt. Jullie zijn opgenomen omdat jullie ziek zijn. Het moet hier niet te gezellig worden."

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, ...
SIMON VAN DER MEER

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 19...
SIMON VAN DER MEER

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
SIMON VAN DER MEER

Any argument that is built wholly upon the denigration of another, without any reference to evidence...
JOHANNES DIRK VAN DER MEER

The great error of our nature is not knowing the difference between the pursuit of happiness, and th...
JOHANNES DIRK VAN DER MEER

When it comes to metaphysical claims the average man, convinced that his beliefs were formed by Devi...
JOHANNES DIRK VAN DER MEER

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on t...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warn...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH

My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. T...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no poin...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH

I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself
JAMES VAN DER ZEE

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...
MIES VAN DER ROHE

God is in the details.
MIES VAN DER ROHE

Less is more.
MIES VAN DER ROHE

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
MIES VAN DER ROHE

We must protect them (animals) and this land. If the animals die, this land dies. If this land dies,...
DIANE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

One thing that man HAS learned from history, is how to kill (animals) more efficiently.
DIANE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environment...
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easie...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the...
LAURENS VAN DER POST

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individ...
LAURENS VAN DER POST

There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
ROGER VAN DER HEIDE

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they ...
LAURENS VAN DER POST

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destro...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK

The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but n...
ANNELIESE VAN DER POL

I remember the moment when I looked at a newsstand and stared at myself on a cover for the first tim...
FREDERIQUE VAN DER WAL

..."Suzette Boon also become very much involved [in dissocation]... She was in my office and was a f...
ONNO VAN DER HART

The psychological impact of trauma in both the military and civilian arenas has been documented for ...
ONNO VAN DER HART

We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solu...
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE

There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE

Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.
LAURENS VAN DER POST

We have the responsibility to care for the ocean as it cares for us
SUZANNE VAN DER VEEKEN

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the c...
LAURENS VAN DER POST

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
LAURENS VAN DER POST

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and s...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK

The contrast with the scans of the eighteen chronic PTSD patients with severe early-life trauma was ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK

Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for ou...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

The idea of service leads to community.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfoldi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new buildi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real h...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reach...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A c...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and fort...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, no...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

God is in the details.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good polit...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will rema...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us o...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their ins...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying ou...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is n...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple trut...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

BEFRIENDING THE BODY

Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and b...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gna...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

I live my life to the Power of "E.X.T.R.E.M.E." but i can multiply it by whatever is on the table...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Leave your Legacy on earth when you leave, to continue changing lives when you no longer can..
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

If your doors keep on becoming walls, your ideas are not explosive enough...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

You can stand first in line at the door of destiny, but only you can open it and walk through...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We are not living in a tech starved world, so how do we build the next biggest thing? One idea at a ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Walking a thousand roads throughout my life, some good and some bad. I realised the one constant was...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

There were times i was sure and i tried, then times i was not sure and i never tried...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Instead of trying to change the world, rebuild it in code...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I believe that one day we will all be free, on this day our time on earth will be done...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We all have a time and place, we would return to in the blink of an eye...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Your passion can be measured by success, the more passionate you are the more determined you will be...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

To master your enemy, is to master their mind. Once you own their mind, you own them...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

It is better to be good than to be original.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Beauty is not a mindset, its how you set that beautiful mind...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

In a world that has everything, it’s time to create the nothing...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Life is short with room for mistakes, just don't let mistakes take up too much room...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Each material has its specific characteristics in which we must understand it if we want to use it. ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

If time is all we have, then time is all we need...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

When i didn't pass anyone, i thought i was running the race of life alone. Then i realised i was in ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Just take another shot, because one more shot might be all you have got...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We all have a love for something, its what we love that ultimately sets us apart...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Rebooting my life... Please wait...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buil...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

This is no less true of steel and concrete [than of wood, brick and stone]. We must remember that ev...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of u...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

When we change the world, we try to change future events, time lines, outcomes or even sources of ev...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

The Ghost's of your yesterday are knocking at your door, they want to give you back the key to your ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I have wondered if world changers had any idea of the impact their vision would have on humanity. Ma...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

There were times in my life i thought for sure the end was near. But it was only the end of that tim...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Time may be a finely woven thread, yet it holds our yesterday, today and tomorrow together...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Time will have its place, and every place will have its time...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I have been told that the worldly system is terminal, that all efforts to add value will ultimately ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

My success is protected by a combination lock; it’s taken me most of my life to find the code to u...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

In a perfect world it would be you and me against the world. But we are not living in a perfect worl...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We give our lives to you daily, don't take our lives from us...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

If today was your final bow, that final curtain call. Could you leave this place knowing you had don...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Its not about where you begin, but rather where your minds potential begins...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Don't get lost in life, get lost in love...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I find myself looking at the ocean, and thinking of you. I have wondered if at that moment you are t...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

As you pass a level in life remember that although you can never re-do any passed levels, you can co...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Its not about what you create in this life, but how you build the next...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

My hand fits yours and it feels right. My eyes meet yours and my heart takes flight. Our journey beg...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Anything is possible, when you are prepared to do anything to achieve the impossible...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Your future will depend on past lessons you've learned...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I have been where i have been, nothing i can do about it. But it's time to stand where i stand and f...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Reaching the top was a daily struggle, maintaining your place at the top will be a life long struggl...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Our children won't be young forever, but to us they will be forever young...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Only you have the power to change everything, or nothing...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Love is the strongest emotion and always will be, so let Love lead your life and let your life lead ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Limitation is only a mindset, which can be conquered in time
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

If you don't recognise the person in the mirror its time to update your residual self image. People ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Beyond me and you, is a world of forever with you and me...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

That moment where time freezes and for a second everything seems perfect...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

My son's see me as their hero, if they only knew how they have saved me making them the real hero's
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

When pondering the limits of the universe, we are confronted by more questions then answers, conside...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

In my opinion this life is our pre-school and we are all students, if we fail too pass our destiny, ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We can all be certain that we don't loose anything daily by losing time, because we all get older an...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We cannot choose our fate, it is our destiny that our fate will choose us
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

By the time your children see the sacrifices you made for them, the fight you fought for them and al...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Life is an ocean of waves, deep as it is wide, with two choices, swim or drown.
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

The unconscious mind takes note of things the conscious mind has not seen
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

A fathers little girl will grow up one day and continue the legacy she learned from him...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Devotion and strength are some of the masterpieces, life has gifted my heart with. Although i am gra...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Stop shaking the tree of life to get the nuts, grow your own tree and sell the nuts...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I'm the kind of crazy no one can deal with, but no one can live without...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

The mind of a man is a twisted place, with many roads and many destinations...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

When minutes are replaced by breaths and your heartbeat is all you hear, you will need to press your...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We all have heroes, some stay longer then just summertime...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

In a crazy world full of the unknown, you will need two things... Your Gun and My Chemical Romance a...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Either take over, or move over...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

If this was the last quote i ever wrote, i'd want you to know that writing this took everything from...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We imagine the day will never come, our loved one's will always be a message, a call or a visit away...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Be unpredictable and change everything...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Your fate can never change you, only you have the power to change your fate...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Envisioning and predicting our future will ensure we become a resilient species that stops engaging ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

If the sunrise stays beautiful, i will have a reason to wake up everyday...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I could say.. Been there, done that and got the t-shirt. But i'm not here for just one t-shirt...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

It is better to fail while trying, then to never try at all...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Struggling through my life has brought me to my knees over a hundred times, but it's taught me that ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I am that friend who comes back for you in a fiery building, but i am also that friend who will set ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must b...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

Because my soul marches to the beat of an Icon Army, does not mean i am at war. It simply means that...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Today i am bolder then i was yesterday, fighting the fight of life like i was a soldier in it...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Dreams can be your light in the dark and can shelter you from the rain. Dreams can lift you to the h...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

If you can’t see your vision, nobody else ever will...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

If a bird stops flying for a while, is it still a bird?
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

When we admire beautiful things do we ever consider how much was endured to become so beautiful...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

You can give everything you have inside of you every day or night too better your life, but unless y...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We were faster then the wind, wilder then the sunset and crazier then the morning dew. We maybe apar...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Thrashing sounds shred the air not once or twice, but thrice. Grinding airwaves into fine lines for ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Who says your best friend needs to be a human...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

You dread the darkness because there is no light, but the absence of light should be the last thing ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Friends will probably attend your funeral or wake. But all your true friends can't, they're freaking...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

The fire that burns inside your soul, creates the light within your eyes...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

You will be given a chance to change the world, be sure not to miss the opportunity because it could...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

My mind is a deep dark place, better bring oxygen and a flashlight...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

You have an icon ready to back you, anytime anywhere. All you have to do is press the play button...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Job opportunities are like fishing lines, they lead to a stranger that may or may not release you...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

As a bird takes flight, there is no fear of falling. Its is a bird and birds fly. You are a human an...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Deep within you lies an original masterpiece, you will either let the world see it or you won't...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

The staircase to your heart was not easy to climb. Our triumph over the hardship throughout the year...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

As children we are taught to count in order, stand in order and to live by order. If chaos and disor...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

For every winner there is a loser, for every loser there is another chance at victory...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug tr...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

If that's the best that you can be, perhaps you're better off a memory...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

We don't know what consciousness is, so we cannot replicate or move it from one host to another...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

If i was to choose life, life would be my choice. If i was to choose death, i would probably already...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Your mind was the canvas on which you wrote the next era in music. But it was that same mind that to...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I have chosen my road, i am prepared to take my chances...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

I have never needed anyone's approval, i decide what i want and i go and get it...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

When i see how amazing my mother is with all her grandchildren, i realise how patient and understand...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Dit is geen kroeg of studentehuis. Dit is een ziekenhuis en het is niet de bedoeling dat hier 's avonds een jolige of rumoerige sfeer hangt. Jullie zijn opgenomen omdat jullie ziek zijn. Het moet hier niet te gezellig worden.

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Dit is geen kroeg of studentehuis. Dit is een ziekenhuis en het is niet de bedoeling dat hier 's avonds een jolige of rumoerige sfeer hangt. Jullie zijn opgenomen omdat jullie ziek zijn. Het moet hier niet te gezellig worden.

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