Helsinki University Quotes & Sayings

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. — Linus Torvalds

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

What I appear, a sick and poor man, is not the worst of me. I am in a chaos of principles
groping in the dark
acting by instinct and not after example. Eight or nine years ago when I came here first, I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. — Thomas Hardy

If there is reincarnation, I would like to be born as Sonu Niigaam. — Sonu Nigam

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there. — Gavin Rossdale

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. — John Keegan

If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the nobility of our memory of them. With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution of happiness, strength, and understanding to my being remains to sustain me in an altered world. — Helen Keller

Researchers at the University Hospital in Helsinki Finland said that if Barbie were a real person, she'd lack the 17-22% body fat required to menstruate. — Habib Sadeghi

I know you don't like me very much."
He pulled back, and his smile turned into another chuckle. "Now I wouldnae say that. Donna get me wrong. Ye have a way about ye that drives me completely mad, and your sharp tongue grates on my nerves, but... 'tis apparent that I hold something for ye because I havenae yet run my sword through ye. — Victoria Roberts

When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that. — Daniel Wu

I think drugs and alcohol aren't a wrestling problem, it's a life problem, it's a people problem. — CM Punk

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. — Christine McVie

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s. — Delia Ephron

Lab to land - how to get what is done in the lab to the land, to the farmer. — Narendra Modi

Every battle is won before it is fought. — Sun Tzu