#russian

Это безусловное клише, но любой талант требует еще многих сопутствующих качеств, самое главное из которых, как ни парадоксально, это уверенность, что он существует. Только она может провести через соблазны прагматического быта, которые упрашивают, молят не рисковать, не пробовать. Ведь если засомневаешься на минуту, если, как в той сказке, рука дрогнет или глаз моргнет, то затянет тут же талант в предательский водоворот частных устремлений и мелких радостей. И разменяют они его. ↗

— Anatoly Toss

#inspirational #inspirational

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

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

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

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#current #first #literary #necessity #philosophical

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#belong #convict #education #forever #got

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. ↗

— Edward Teller

#had #hydrogen #i #no regrets #now