Lennart Meri famous quotes

History is more interesting than politics.
-- Lennart Meri

#Interesting #Language

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

#Past #Hunters #Film

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
-- Lennart Meri

#Cities #Big Cities #Bigs

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

#Ties #Yardsticks #Lost

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

#Morning #Mirrors #Ties

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.
-- Lennart Meri

#Virgins #Security #Virginity

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.
-- Lennart Meri

#Cows #Milk #Mets

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect,
-- Lennart Meri

#Passion #Needs #Shy

If geography is prose, maps are iconography,
-- Lennart Meri

#Iconography #Maps #Geography

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.
-- Lennart Meri

#World #Soviet #Understood