#russian

The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president. ↗

— Valentina Matviyenko

#demands #lord #mentality #president #russian

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales. ↗

— Modest Mussorgsky

#got #i #nanny #russian #tales

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#forget #resignation #russian #soul #you

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it. ↗

— William Odom

#beyond #come #context #decided #deterioration

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. ↗

— William Odom

#bottom #case #command #control #general

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#feat #i #performed #russian #scale

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette. ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#bikes #guess #i #just #love

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#contains #pity #russian #single #trophies

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#bush #children #down #folks #george

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#another #areas #arrival #back #blocked