Peeter Helme Quotes & Sayings

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong. — Billy Bob Thornton

I love living in New York. — Chelsea Clinton

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food. — Mark Hyman

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it. — Matisyahu

Upset at the sight of blood?" he said. "Not my wife, Ornon."
"Your blood, " the ambassador pointed out. Eugenides glanced at the hook in his arm and conceded the point. "Yes," he said. — Megan Whalen Turner

Dr Johnson died in 1944. The suspicion exists that he was silenced ... However two federal inspectors did examine his hospital record in the late 1950's. They concluded it was likely that he was poisoned. — Barry Lynes

If there is something I will always carry in my heart it is this earnest unwillingness to be part of the bunch, — Eileen Myles

It's always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you. — David Levithan

Our sorrows, like the passing keels of the vessels upon the sea, leave a silver line of holy light behind them "afterwards." It is peace, sweet, deep peace, which follows the horrible turmoil which once reigned in our tormented, guilty souls. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions. — Oskar Kokoschka

Personally, he much preferred to get them chatting. People were generally much less inclined to want to kill you once you'd chatted for a bit, and if they weren't, well, at least you could use the time to think of an escape plan. — Philip Reeve

The proper artistic response to digital technology is to
embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally
human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy — Ralph Lombreglia

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right. — Henry Ford

Besides, take away self-interest and you condemn the species to extinction, that's my motto! — X