Lennart Meri Quotes

#1. Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#2. I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't do it.

Paul Auster

#3. I can say 100% that Westlife is not breaking up.

Shane Filan

#4. If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Lennart Meri

#5. Damn truth, always resisting simplicity.

John Green

#6. I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Lennart Meri

#7. Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Lennart Meri

#8. Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Lennart Meri

#9. We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

Elizabeth Fishel

#10. I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

Lennart Meri

#11. In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Lennart Meri

#12. That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.

Lennart Meri

#13. Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

Lennart Meri

#14. Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Lennart Meri

#15. But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ...

Moliere

#16. With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

Lennart Meri

#17. I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

Tallulah Bankhead

#18. Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Lennart Meri

#19. History is more interesting than politics.

Lennart Meri

#20. I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

Lennart Meri

#21. We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery.

Steven Cuoco

#22. Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Lennart Meri

#23. Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow