Estonian Quotes

#1. In Munich, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a rare European NATO leader who has a clear picture of events, told Merkel that the choice was "surrender or arm Ukraine" - to no effect.

Anonymous

#2. We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

Carmen Kass

#3. Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.

Nick Hornby

#4. Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

Bernard Baruch

#5. At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing 'Hero' by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We'd do it as a duet, and it's the first I remember performing.

Jess Glynne

#6. As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Geoff Mulgan

#7. Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ...

Anne Sexton

#8. When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

Rick Yancey

#9. Patience is a virtue,
Virtue is a grace.
Grace is a little girl
Who would not wash her face.

Dick King-Smith

#10. I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. If I don't agree with something, I let people know, and it occasionally leads to tension. But I usually iron things out.

Estelle

#12. [T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing
such as making love.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Jose Bergamin

#14. Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

Brian Tracy

#15. Now, in order that true religion may shine upon us, we ought to hold that it must take its beginning from heavenly doctrine and that no one can get even the slightest taste of right and sound doctrine unless he be a pupil of Scripture.

John Calvin

#16. I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.

Xavier Dolan