Finnish Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army
— Joseph Stalin
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Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.
— Adolf Ivar Arwidsson
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A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back…
— Renny Harlin
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I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's…
— John Hodgman
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Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.
— Paavo Haavikko
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They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he…
— Arthur Lydiard
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
— Linus Torvalds
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It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his…
— Susan Cain
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My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket…
— Michael Franti
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Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It…
— Pihla Viitala
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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most…
— Harri Holkeri
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went…
— Harri Holkeri
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Believe yourself in everything that you do,never loose hope,coz the finnish-line must just be laying ahead.
— Jamsta E Ngugz
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There was a moment last night, when she was sandwiched between the two Finnish dwarves and the Maori tribesmen, where I thought, Wow, I could…
— Zoolander
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Im surprised I lived this long. it would have been much easier to let everything go and finnish it. I look back at all the…
— Nayelysaldana
Who Wrote These Finnish Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Finnish Quotes as follows: